John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions); the art-poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions), which has been named to “Best Fiction of 2015″ lists by New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, LitHub, Flavorwire, and other publications. His art-text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner, GRIND, is forthcoming from ITI Press in 2016. He has also published a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books / A Bolha Editora), and has exhibited his artwork in Brooklyn and Berlin. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective and a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, he currently serves on the board of the African Poetry Book Fund, and teaches in the departments of English and African American and African Studies, which he chairs, and also is a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, at Rutgers University-Newark.
This event is sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the DuPlessis Lecture Fund, the Faculty Senate Lectures & Forums Committee, the Visual Studies Program, the Honors Program, The Women’s Studies Program, Temple Contemporary, and The Student Coalition of The Burrow of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership (IDEAL).