Poet James Arthur will be at W&J Feb. 26 to give a reading in Burnett 103 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a residency at the Amy Clampitt House, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection appeared from Copper Canyon Press in 2012. James is an Assistant Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and he recently taught at Queen’s University Belfast as a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing.
