Faculty Book Launch: Liz Kicak and Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Thanks to a generous endowed gift, the Humanities Institute is proud to host the Garry Fleming Poetry Series. Working with our friends at the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library in the Department of English, this exciting collaboration brings nationally recognized, award-winning poets, and emerging creative voices to the University of South Florida throughout the year to consult with students in small workshops, as well as give featured public readings.

Event is free and open to the public.

Liz Kicak’s first poetry collection, Reliquaries, is a collection of poems both reverent and skeptical of the complex divinity of the natural world, the family, and the self. Each poem, itself a container meant to house a precious relic, delights in the mangrove, the spoonbill, the venom, and the flood. They celebrate the living and the dead, the mundane and the fantastic.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s third book, My Perfect Cognate, interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens: violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the border between the United States and Mexico, where the author and her mother were often stopped, interrogated. Written from the depths of severe post-partum depression,  Natalie Scenters-Zapico searches for a language that can hold both personal and communal pain.

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Co-hosted with: Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library

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