November 12, 2024
Author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, Arkansas) and Newly Not Eternal (LSU).
George David Clark is the author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, Arkansas) and Newly Not Eternal (LSU), David’s recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in AGNI, The Believer, Crazyhorse, Five Points, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Image, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.
After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech University, David held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University. He’s received additional honors from Southern Poetry Review (the Guy Owen Prize), Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize), and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (a Walter E. Dakin fellowship), among others. The editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, he previously served in various capacities on the staffs of Meridian, Iron Horse Literary Magazine, and the Best New Poets anthology. Since 2015 David has taught creative writing and literature at Washington & Jefferson College, where he is now an associate professor. George David Clark was born in Savannah and raised in Chattanooga and Little Rock. He now lives in McMurray, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four children.
Further information
- Location: Stern Center Great Room
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: Free