D.S. Waldman will read from his new poetry collection, ATRIA, and will be joined in conversation by poet and current Iowa NWP candidate, Austin Araujo. Described as a “rich, prismatic collection” that “guides readers through the halls of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,” ATRIA is praised by Hannah Bonner as “striking clarity…in matters of both theory and the heart,” while Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, says: “A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s keen, unblinking eye.” DS Waldman’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and ZYZZYVA, among other publications. A 2022–2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow, he teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Poets House. He lives in Brooklyn. Austin Araujo is a student in the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and he earned his MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. His work has appeared in Poetry, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and Cleveland Review of Books. His debut poetry collection, At the Park on the Edge of the Country, won the 2023 Charles B. Wheeler Prize.
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