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DESCRIPTION:The 55th Writers’ Festival welcomes keynote author John Keene
  for a reading and discussion of his work. John Keene is the author\, co-a
 uthor\, and translator of a handful of books\, including Punks: New & Sele
 cted Poems (The Song Cave\, 2021)\, which received the 2022 National Book 
 Award for Poetry\, a 2022 Thom Gunn Award\, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Awa
 rd for Gay Poetry. His other works include Counternarratives (New Directio
 ns\, 2015)\, which received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction\, the inau
 gural Republic of Consciousness Prize in the UK\, and a Windham-Campbell P
 rize for Fiction\, Seismosis (1913 Press\, 2006)\, with artist Christopher
  Stackhouse\, and Annotations (New Directions\, 1995). With Robert F. Reid
 -Pharr he co-edited Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems by Essex Hemp
 hill (New Directions\, 2025)\, and he translated Brazilian author Hilda Hi
 lst’s Letters from a Seducer (Nightbook Books/A Bolha Editor\, 2014)\, w
 hich was published in a new\, revised edition from Pushkin Press in 2025. 
 A 2018 MacArthur Fellow and a member of the African Poetry Book Fund\, now
  based at Brown University\, he is Distinguished Professor of English and 
 Africana Studies\, former Chair of Africana Studies\, and former Interim D
 irector of the MFA Program in Creative Writing Program at Rutgers Universi
 ty-Newark.\nAs with all all other Writers' Festival programming\, this eve
 nt is free and all are welcome to attend. Free parking is available in the
  campus deck at 137 S McDonough St\, Decatur\, GA 30030. Signs will direct
  you to Winter Theatre.
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LOCATION:Dana Fine Arts Building\, Winter Theater
SUMMARY:Writers' Festival Keynote: John Keene
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