Our next installment of the Jake Adam York Reading Series is coming up in two weeks! Poet Blas Falconer will be reading on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 PM in Tivoli 640 (Zenith Room). We hope to see you there and hope that you will encourage your students to attend. We would love to have a great crowd, and it’s a wonderful way for students to experience English Department community. I’m attaching both a flyer and a packet of poems by Blas to share with your classes.
Blas Falconer is the author of five books of poetry—Rara Avis, Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, A Question of Gravity and Light, and The Perfect Hour. He is also a co-editor for The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Falconer is a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.
These poems carefully delineate the casual cruelties of queer youth and the beautiful and bitter revelations of adulthood. The wisdom propelling Rara Avis is the knowledge that we are each of us that rare bird; we share our singularity. . . . Alchemized by love, one thing, unlike any other, becomes all things.
Sponsored by the CU Denver English Department, the CU Denver Creative Writing Program, Copper Nickel, and the Office of Access and Campus Engagement.
Q&A and book signing to follow
