Readings

Poetry: Michael Waters

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Michael Waters’s books include the forthcoming Celestial Joyride, Gospel Night, Darling Vulgarity, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, among others. The recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and numerous fellowships, Waters has also edited several anthologies, including Contemporary American Poetry and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali.

Poetry

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.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA. 

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members. 

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