The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Sumita Chakraborty on Thursday, March 18th at 7PM. This virtual event in our Visiting Writers Series will be livestreamed via our YouTube channel. It is free and open to the public.
Books are available for online order through our friends at Scuppernong Books (scuppernongbooks.com).
Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her debut collection of poetry, Arrow, was released in September 2020 with Alice James Books in the United States and Carcanet Press in the United Kingdom. Her first scholarly book, tentatively titled Grave Dangers: Death, Ethics, and Poetics in the Anthropocene, is in progress. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2019, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where she teaches in literary studies and creative writing.
