Nationally-recognized poet Michael Waters will open the 2009 Georgia Poetry Circuit with a free public reading Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock St.
Kevin Vaughn, a graduate student in UGA’s creative writing program, will open the reading, which is part of the The Georgia Review Reading series.
Waters’ books of poetry include Darling Vulgarity; Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems; Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum; Bountiful; The Burden Lifters; and Anniversary of the Air.
Waters’ poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Georgia Review, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review and Rolling Stone. In 2004, he chaired the poetry panel for the National Book Award. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation and four Pushcart Prizes, he teaches at Monmouth University in New Jersey, in the New England College MFA program, and will soon join the faculty of the MFA program at Drew University.
Vaughn is a poet and Ph.D. candidate at UGA. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to Poland’s historic Jagiellonian University and a current fellow of the Cave Canem Foundation. He also is the recipient of artistic residencies and fellowships from around the world. Vaughn holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. He lives in Paris and Athens.
