University Club
420 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
IN-PERSON EVENT. CENTRAL TIME.
The “Reading By Writers” series at the University Club of St. Paul presents a poetry reading with Michael Bazzett, Thomas R. Smith, Philip Bryant, and Joyce Sutphen. More details here!
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named a New York Times Best Book of 2018. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, and Best New Poets. He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives in Minneapolis.
A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining—and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.