Old Dominion University
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Norfolk, VA 23529
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Join “Grit and Grace: 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival” for a virtual reading with Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. All festival events are via virtual webinar. Learn more here.
Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Waters Edge. Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico, he holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Poetry
Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
This National Poetry Series winner is an unflinching portrait of the actual west—full of beauty as well as brutality, where boys tentatively learn to become, and to love, men.