Back to All Events

A Conversation and Reading with Poet Michelle Peñaloza

  • Memorial Library, Room 126 (map)

The Asian American Studies Program and the English Department present a conversation and reading with poet Michelle Peñaloza. The event is free and open to the public.

The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle Peñaloza was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN.

She is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak, and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes.

2:30: Conversation, discussion, and Q&A
4:00: Reading