Author of "Somewhere Else," Matthew Shenoda

Shenoda is a writer and professor whose poems and essays have appeared in a variety of newspapers, journals, radio programs, and anthologies. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else, was named one of 2005’s debut books of the year by Poets & Writers and won a 2006 American Book Award. He is also the author of Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone; editor of Duppy Conqueror: New & Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes; and most recently author of Tahrir Suite: Poems, winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award, and co-editor of Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden.

Q&A
Fri, Feb. 23, 11 am
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library