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SELINSGROVE — Poets Chet’la Sebree and Karla Kelsey will give a virtual reading of their work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9th. This event is free and open to the public as part of the Seavey Reading Series at Susquehanna University’s Writers Institute. To request a Zoom link for this event, please contact the Writers Institute at WritersInstitute@susqu.edu.
Raised in the mid-Atlantic, Chet’la Sebree graduated from American University where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on poetry. Over the course of her career, Sebree has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo.
Sebree is the author of two books of poetry. Mistress (New Issues, 2019) was selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Poetry. Field Study, a lyric meditation on black womanhood and desire, is forthcoming from FSG Originals in 2021. Her poetry and prose have also appeared in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, wildness, Guernica, Poetry International, and The Account.
Sebree is Assistant Professor of English and the Director for the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University.
Born and raised in Southern California, Karla Kelsey earned her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and received her PhD from the University of Denver. She was an H.D. Fellow at Yale University’s Beinecke Library and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars grant.
Kelsey is the author of four books of poetry: A Conjoined Book (Omnidawn, 2014), Iteration Nets (Ahsahta, 2010), Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta, 2006), and most recently Blood Feather (Tupelo Press, 2020). She has also published a collection of experimental essays, Of Sphere (2017), which was selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Prize. Her poems and creative prose can also be found in such journals as Bomb, Fence, Conjunctions, New American Writing, The Boston Review, Verse, and Tupelo Quarterly.
Kelsey has taught in Budapest, Hungary, and she is Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.
For more information about programs sponsored by the Writers Institute and upcoming events, please visit www.susqu.edu/visitingwriters.
EVENT LISTING:
Poets Chet’la Sebree and Karla Kelsey will give a virtual reading of their work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9th. To request a Zoom link for this event, please contact the Susquehanna University Writers Institute at WritersInstitute@susqu.edu.