A Poetry Reading with Alison C. Rollins

Alison Rollins will be the inaugural poet in the Garry Fleming Poetry Series, hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library. She will join USF students for a workshop and give a public reading.

Alison C. Rollins will read and perform from her groundbreaking collection Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Inspired by the nineteenth-century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, these poems explore the intersections between individual experience and collective memory. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Co-hosted with: Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library

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