Spring 2024 Ibis Reading Series with special guests Keetje Kuipers and Melissa Rivero
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 6pm
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6200 San Amaro Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
The Department of English and Creative Writing is pleased to announce our upcoming Spring 2024 Ibis Reading Series with special guests Keetje Kuipers and Melissa Rivero! This reading and audience Q&A will be held at the Newman Alumni Center on campus at 6pm on Tuesday, March 5th.
Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her most recent book, All Its Charms (2019), was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Keetje’s poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in over a hundred journals and magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, Narrative, Tin House, VQR, American Poetry Review, Orion, Kenyon Review, and The Believer. https://keetjekuipers.com/
Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, winner of the 2019 New American Voices Award and a 2020 International Latino Book Award. The book was also longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her most recent novel, Flores and Miss Paula, was published in December 2023. Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of NYU and Brooklyn Law School, where she was an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. https://www.melissa-rivero.com/
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