Readings at the Nick

Title

Readings at the Nick: Joe Wilkins

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

53 minutes 38 seconds

Publication Date

9-27-2016

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Poetry

Abstract

Joe Wilkins (associate professor of English at Linfield College) reads from his collection of poetry When We Were Birds. Published by the University of Arkansas Press, the poems in the collection describe "the bean-rusted fields and gutted factories of the Midwest," ordinary injustice and everyday sadness, the imminent birth of his son, and Wilkins's own confusions in taking up the mantle of fatherhood. When We Were Birds was a finalist for the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was the recipient of a 2017 Oregon Book Award (Stafford/Hall award for poetry).

Comments

Sponsored by the Linfield College English Department and the Jereld R. Nicholson Library.

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