Posted on August 19, 2024
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a nonfiction and poetry reading by UNCG alum Sarah Rose Nordgren and Travis Sharp on Thursday, September 12th at 6PM in Room 1215 of the Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, 1111 Spring Garden Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.
SARAH ROSE NORDGREN is the author of the poetry collections Darwin’s Mother and Best Bones, the prose chapbook The Creation Museum, and the new nonfiction book Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Narrative, and have been featured by PBS Newshour, The Slowdown podcast, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in her hometown of Durham, North Carolina where she is the Founding Director of The School for Living Futures, an interdisciplinary, experimental project dedicated to creating new knowledge and possibility for our climate-changed future.
TRAVIS SHARP is a poet, book artist, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections Monoculture (Unicorn Press 2024) and Yes, I am a corpse flower (Knife Fork Book 2021) and the poetry and essay chapbooks Behind the Poet Reading Their Poem Is a Sign Saying Applause (Knife Fork Book 2022) and Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press 2018). He is co-editor of a collection of essays about the 2016 US Presidential election, Radio: 11.8.16 (Essay Press 2017). He has published a number of artist’s books, including one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources 2018), FEARHEAR GESTHARE URESHARM HEREHIRE (aether inK 2015), and The Cargo Pants Pocket Anthology of Peer Reviewed Articles (Letter [r] Press 2015). His critical work focuses on textual materiality and the politics of textual and literary composition and has appeared in Criticism and Discourse and Writing (Rédactologie). Outside of academia, he works in non-profit publishing as the executive editor and publisher at the small press Essay Press.
For directions and more information about parking: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Moore Humanities (MHRA).
