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Spring 2024 Creative Writing Reading Series

Tomaz Morin bio pictureA Reading with Tómas Morín

Thursday, March 21
7:30 PM
HUMA 001
or register for Zoom on the Creative Writing Reading Series Page

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection Machete (Knopf, 2021); the memoir Let Me Count the Ways (Univ. of Nebraska, 2022); and a collection of literary letters entitled Where Are You From: Letters to My Son (Univ. of Nebraska, 2024).  His first collection of poetry A Larger Country was the winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize and runner-up for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Patient Zero, his second poetry collection, was described by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as "striking in capturing everyday actions with startling, musical wit." His individual essays and poems have appeared, among many journals, in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. With Mari L'Esperance, he co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, a book that explores the art and value of Philip Levine's five decades of teaching. In his work as a translator, Morín translated Pablo Neruda's visionary The Heights of Macchu Picchu, as well as Luisa Pardo & Gabino Rodriguez's libretto Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance, a magisterial opera composed by Graham Reynolds. His awards include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2022 NEA Fellowship. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Associate Chair of the English Department at Rice University.

This reading will be held onsite in the Humanities Building, Room 001, at 7:30 PM. 

Spring 2024 Creative Writing Reading Series line-up:

All readings will be held in the Humanities Building, Room 001, at 7:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.