Visiting Writers' Series: William Logan
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 6pm
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1221 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
Poet William Logan will be visiting UAB to read some of his original work.
William Logan’s most recent book of poems is Rift of Light (2017) and most recent book of essays, Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (2021). His reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New Criterion, Poetry, and other journals; and he has written a twice-a-year verse chronicle for the New Criterion since 1995.
Logan has received, among other honors, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction, the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, and the Allen Tate Prize.
Logan is Alumni/ae Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he was director of the creative writing from 1983 to 2000.
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