Georgia Poetry Circuit Events 2024-2025

The Department of English at Georgia Southern University is pleased to sponsor the following Georgia Poetry Circuit events in 2024 and 2025:

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Zoom due to weather; 7-8 pm

Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023). The daughter of Cuban exiles, her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A former guest host of the award-winning podcast The Slowdown, she currently works as the managing editor of New England Review and teaches in the Newport MFA program at Salve Regina University.

Friday, February 7, 2025

IT 1005, 2:30 – 3:30 pm

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are Cain Named the Animal, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

TBD

Camonghne Felix is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, Freeman’s Journal and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Multi-Genre at The New School in New York City.

Last updated: 1/22/2025