Axton Reading Series

Department of English reading series featuring distinguished writers

Fall 2023

Fall 2023 Axton Readers

Claire Wahmanholm

Claire Wahmanholm

Axton Reading:
October 12 5:30 pm
Bingham Poetry Room (Ekstrom Library)

Axton Master Craft Talk:
October 13, 10 am to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM) 300


Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder (Milkweed Editions 2018), Redmouth (Tinderbox Editions 2019), and most recently, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions 2023). Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Cream City Review, TriQuarterly, Sierra, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, and Beloit Poetry Journal. A 2020-2021 McKnight Writing Fellow, and the 2022 winner of the Montreal Poetry Prize, Claire lives in the Twin Cities. 

 

Lee Durkee

Lee Durkee

Axton Reading:
November 16 7:30 pm
Chao Auditorium (Esktrom Library)

Axton Master Craft Talk:
November 17, 10 am to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM) 300


Lee Durkee is the author of The Last Taxi Driver (Tin House Press) named a best novel of 2020 by Le Monde, Kirkus Review, and the Irish Times; the novel Rides of the Midway (WW Norton);  and most recently the memoir Stalking Shakespeare (Scribner). His work has appeared in Harper's, The Sun, Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, Garden & Gun, and Mississippi Noir. He lives in Taylor, Mississippi.  

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University of Louisville

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