A Poetry Reading with Jake Skeets

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, a National Poetry Series selection and winner of the American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is from the Navajo Nation and was appointed the 3rd Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

Part of the Garry Fleming Poetry Series brought to you by the USF Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library.

Event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow the reading.

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Co-hosted with: Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library

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