East Central University鈥檚 Sixth Annual September Poetry Series, featuring Janine Joseph and Brent Newsom, is set for Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center.
The event is free and open to the public.
Janine Joseph
Joseph, born in the Philippines, is the author of 鈥淒riving without a License,鈥� winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, 2018 da Vinci Eye Award and finalist for 2017 Oklahoma Book Award.
Her poems and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, The Poem鈥檚 Country: Place & Poetic Practice, Kenan Review Online, Best New Poets, Best American Experimental Writing, Zocalo Square, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, the Academy of American Poets鈥� Poem-Day series.
A librettist, Joseph鈥檚 commission work for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco include What Wings They Were: The Case of Emeline, 鈥淥n the Muddy Water鈥�: Voices from the Houston Ship Channel and From My Mother鈥檚 Mother.
Additionally, her poems have been set to music by acclaimed composers Melissa Dunphy, for the PhilHarmonai鈥檚 鈥淎merican DREAMers: Stories of Immigration鈥� concert and Reinaldo Moya, for the Schubert Club鈥檚 鈥淒REAM Song鈥� concert.
Joseph is an organizer for Undocupoets and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Poets & Writers in Tulsa and the National Advisory Board for Writers at Work. She lives in Stillwater, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University.
Brent Newsom
Newsom鈥檚 debut poetry collection, 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Labors,鈥� was published in 2015 by CavanKerry Press and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.
His poems have also appeared in The Southern Review, PANK, Hopkins Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cave Wall and other journals. In addition, he wrote the libretto for an opera titled A Porcelain Doll, which premiered at Oklahoma Baptist University if March of 2017.
Newsom lives with his wife and two children in Shawnee, where he is an assistant professor of English at OBU.
The event is being sponsored by the 成人B站 Department of English and Languages. For more information contact Dr. Ken Hada at 580-559-5557 or khada@ecok.edu.
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