Readings

Poetry: Richard Kenney

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Richard Kenney has published four books of poems: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. He has received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations.

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.

Poetry is supported, in part, by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.

Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and an anonymous donor.