November 15 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Alumni Room, Old Main
This event is open to the public.
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Gina Franco’s forthcoming book of poems, The Accidental, was awarded the 2019 CantoMundo Poetry Prize. It will be published with the University of Arkansas Press in Fall of 2019. Set primarily in the borderlands of the American southwest, the collection reflects on the strangeness of accident and its role in creating the lives we are born into. Her first book, The Keepsake Storm, published with the University of Arizona Press, interrogates the uneasy alliance between the vehemence of memory and the surrealism of narrative, especially in light of language, place, faith, and identity. She keeps a journal of photographs at reli[e]able signs that reflects her travels between Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas—where her family lives—and Illinois, where she and her husband live and work most of the year. She teaches poetry writing, 18th & 19th-century British literature, Gothic literature, poetry translation, Borderland writing, religion and literature, and literary theory at Knox, where she is a Professor of English.