SLU Writers Series welcomes Nathaniel Mackey

Tuesday, November 10           8 P.M.             Sykes Common Room

Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Splay Anthem, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2006.  In addition, he is the author of an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, of which four volumes have been published, most recently Bass Cathedral; and two books of criticism, most recently Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews.  He edits the literary magazine Hambone and coedited, with Art Lange, the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose.  A past recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and a member of the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, Professor Mackey teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.