A Reading from Fall Distinguished Visiting Poet Catherine Theis
By Black Rock Press, College of Liberal Arts, Core Humanities, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Department of English, Holman Arts and Media Center, Interdisciplinary Arts, Performing Arts Series, School of the Arts, The Lilley Museum
About this event
The MFA Program in Creative Writing is thrilled to announce a reading from our Fall Distinguished Poet in Residence Catherine Theis, Wednesday October 22nd, 6pm at The John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art.
Catherine Theis is the translator of Slashing Sounds (University of Chicago, 2024), the first collection of the Italian poet Jolanda Insana to be published in English. She is the author of MEDEA (Plays Inverse, 2017), an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets, 2011), followed by her chapbook, The June Cuckold, a tragedy in verse(Convulsive, 2012). Along with editors Susan McCabe and Steven Minas, Theis is editing The Sound of the Past: Modernist Echoes and Incantations, forthcoming from Vernon Press. Her contribution includes the essay, "What's Your Final Destination?: Place in Mirrlees, Eliot, and the Modernist Long Poem.” Her newest collection of poems, By a Roman, will be published by Antiphony Press in October 2025.
Sponsorship by the MFA Program at UNR, The Fenimore Family Fund, The Department of English and The Hilliard Endowment.
For more information, please contact Jared Stanley, jaredstanley@unr.edu
Additional information
- Attendance type: In person
- Event type: Arts & Culture, Lectures & Seminars