The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Robert P. Hubbard Professorship welcome poet Joyelle McSweeney for a reading on April 11 at 5 p.m. in Finn House's Cheever Room.
Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, a well-known critic and a publisher of international literature. McSweeney's recent book, "Toxicon and Arachne" (Nightboat Books, 2020), was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her essay collection, "The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults," is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-criticism. With Johannes Göransson, McSweeney is a co-founder of Action Books, an international press that helps to build readerships for vital poets from around the world, including Griffin Prize Winners Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi, Raúl Zurita, Daniel Borzutzky, Hiromi Itō and Jeffrey Angles, among many others.
McSweeney teaches at Notre Dame, lives in South Bend and joins us to celebrate the release of her newest poetry collection, "Death Styles."