Student Tribune

MCC's Creative Arts Reading Series Thrives in Fall 2020

The Creative Arts Committee of Monroe Community College proudly announces its writers for the fall 2020 term. All authors have pre-taped themselves reading their works. Those links are available in the descriptions below. They may accessed at any time for educational purposes. The members of the Creative Arts team at MCC encourage you to share this information with your students as well.

Albert Abonado: Poet

Albert Abonado teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo. In 2014, he received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Apogee, Boston Review, Pleiades, The Literary Review, LIT, Waxwing, and others. He is also author of the e-chapbook "This is Superbook"; and in 2020, Jaw, his first full-length collection of poems, was released by Sundress Publications. A major advocate of poets and poetry, Albert co-organizes and participates in several reading series in Rochester and hosts Flour City Yawp, a WAYO radio program devoted entirely to the discussion and promotion of poetry.

Pre-taped reading link: https://ensemble.itec.suny.edu/hapi/v1/conte nts/permalinks/MCC_CreativeArts_AlbertAbonado_JawsAndOthers/view

Carl Adamshick: Poet

Carl Adamshick is an American poet. He is the author of four poetry collections, including Curses and Wishes, winner of the 2010 W alt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets; Saint Friend, published in 2014; Receipt, published by Lost Horse Press in 2017; and Birches, published by Four Way Books in 2019. Adamshick is also the editor and publisher of Tavern Books. For a more complete bio about Adamshick, visit: https://poets.org/poet/carl-adamshi ck

Pre-taped reading link: https://ensemble.itec.suny.edu/hapi/v1/co ntents/permalinks/MCC_CreativeArts_CarlAdamshick_LivingRoomPoetry/view

Kelli Jo Ford: Fiction Writer

Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award at Bread Loaf, a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and the anthology Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, among other places. Her debut novel, Crooked Hallelujah, was published by Grove Press in July 2020. For more information about Ford, visit: https://kellijoford.com/

Pre-taped reading link: https://ensemble.itec.suny.edu/hapi/v1/con tents/permalinks/MCC_CreativeArts_KelliJoFord_CrookedHallelujah/view

Amina Gautier: Fiction Writer

Amina Gautier is a successful scholar, professor, and fiction writer. Her critical writing has appeared in American Review, Belles Lettres, Daedalus, Journal of American History, Libraries and Culture, Nineteenth Century Contexts, and Whitman Noir. She is also the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Long-listed for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction, and At-Risk, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. For a full list of Gautier's publications and awards, visit: https://aminagautier.wordpress.co m/bio/.

Pre-taped reading links (audio only):

https://ensemble.itec.suny.edu/hapi/v1/content s/permalinks/MCC_CreativeArts_AminaGautier_LostAndFound/view

https://ensemble.itec.suny.edu/hapi/ v1/contents/permalinks/MCC_CreativeArts_AminaGautier_TheLossOfAllLostThings/view

Leuzzi, Anthony
English/Philosophy
08/28/2020