Events at Reed

September 12

Visiting Writer Series: Paisley Rekdal

6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel

Rekdal’s work received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart prizes, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from the New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, Poetry, the New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, and on National Public Radio among others.