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Arda Collins

Poem Present - Readings (video)

Poem Present - Readings (audio)

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Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Arda Collins about feeling freer about writing after having kids, becoming a poet, hiding her prose, Charles Simic, working on documentaries, the Iowa workshop, her first collection IT IS DAYLIGHT (2009), her new collection STAR LAKE (2022), the years between the books, the links between the books, and more.Arda Collins is the author of Star Lake (2022) and It Is Daylight (2009), which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Colorado Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Jeff Alessandrelli is the director and co-editor of Fonograf Editions and its imprint, BUNNY.Find Autofocus Books at autofocuslit.com/books.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik &amp; Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Arda Collins about feeling freer about writing after having kids, becoming a poet, hiding her prose, Charles Simic, working on documentaries, the Iowa workshop, her first collection IT IS DAYLIGHT (2009), her new collection STAR LAKE (2022), the years between the books, the links between the books, and more.Arda Collins is the author of Star Lake (2022) and It Is Daylight (2009), which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Colorado Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Jeff Alessandrelli is the director and co-editor of <a href="https://fonografeditions.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fonograf Editions</a> and its imprint, BUNNY.Find Autofocus Books at <a href="https://fonografeditions.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">autofocuslit.com/books</a>.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik &amp; Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Arda Collins [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.Arda Collins, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Poetry Prize, reads selected poems as part of the "Poem Present"series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Arda Collins, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Poetry Prize, reads selected poems as part of the "Poem Present"series.

Arda Collins Poetry Reading (Audio)

Arda Collins Poetry Reading