ICE Conversation: Will Alexander
Thursday, January 18 at 3 PM
Rescheduled from January 17 due to inclement weather
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Will Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His books include Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, and Compression and Purity. Alexander has taught at many colleges and universities, including the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the University of California, and Hofstra University, among others. His honors and awards include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize.
Will Alexander’s visit is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Creative Writing Program in the department of English. A free public reading will take place on Thursday, January 18 at 7 PM at Cine.