Join us for a reading and conversation with Arda Collins, moderated by Chicu Reddy.
Arda Collins is the author of Star Lake (The Song Cave, 2022), long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award, and It Is Daylight (2009), which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by Louise Glück. She is a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Apart from her work as a writer and a teacher, she has also been an associate producer for the PBS documentary series Frontline and American Experience. She teaches at Smith College.
Literary Arts Lab: Art and Wonder is a two-day festival of public readings, panels, craft talks, and Q&As featuring writers Arda Collins, Hernan Diaz, Renee Gladman, and Joy Harjo in conversation with UChicago faculty, students, and community members. Join us as we explore the intersections between art, wonder, imagination, and writing craft. Free and open to everyone.
Presented in partnership with the Poetry and the Human Core; the Department of English Language and Literature; the Office of Multicultural Affairs; the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; the Committee on Social Thought; the Division of the Humanities; and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores