A Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winning author will speak at UF for the 2017 Florida Writers Festival.
Paul Muldoon, a poet known for “Moy Sand and Gravel,” will speak at the event in the Ustler Hall Atrium with three other authors Nov. 3-4. The festival is free and open to all students.
The authors were selected by the UF English department and members of the MFA Creative Writing program. There will be two writers and two poets.
“We draw a list of writers who we would like to invite because we admire their work and we think that they have something new to say, to tell us, to teach us and also who we think are going to draw students at the university and people in the community at large,” said David Leavitt, a co-director of the MFA program at UF.
The other authors are Lydia Davis, Lawrence Joseph and Rachel Cusk.
To gauge which authors they would bring, Leavitt said they considered student enthusiasm.
“We actually try to give the students a lot of say in making these decisions because they do all the legwork,” said Leavitt.
Joseph, a poet, said he’ll be reading from his latest work, “So Where Are We?: Poems.”
“I’ve given readings, talks at several festivals — Florida’s is one of the oldest and most prestigious, and I feel honored to participate in it with Lydia Davis, Paul Muldoon, and Rachel Cusk, three of my most favorite writers,” Joseph wrote in an email.
