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May 1, 2024 | 7:00 pm EDT

Reading & Conversation: Kaveh Akbar & Frances Cannon

Location: Gund Gallery Community Foundation Theater, Kenyon College

Please join the Kenyon Review for a reading and conversation with Kaveh Akbar and Frances Cannon about their new books Martyr and Fling Diction. This event is co-sponsored by the Kenyon College English Department, Kenyon’s LGBTQ+ Diversity Fund and the Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund. A Q&A with the audience will follow, and books will be available for purchase and signing afterwards.

Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017), in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry 2016). He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine (Penguin Classics 2022). Martyr!, Kaveh’s first novel, was published by Knopf earlier this year.

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Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. Her published books include: Walter Benjamin Reimagined, MIT Press, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, Gold Wake Press, Tropicalia, Vagabond Press, Predator/Play, Ethel Press, Uranian Fruit, Honeybee Press, Sagittaria, Bottlecap Press, and Fling Diction, Green Writers Press.

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