MacKnight Black Poetry Reading: Brenda Shaughnessy

Distinguished poet Brenda Shaughnessy, judge of the H. MacKnight Black Poetry Competition, will read her poetry, preceded at the podium by students whose poems she selected in the competition.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press) a New York Times’ 100 Notable Book and a finalist for the Griffin International Prize. Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar (James Laughlin Award recipient and finalist for the NBCC Award) and Interior with Sudden Joy.  Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, T magazine, The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry, and elsewhere. She was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2013 and is Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.