Poet Sean Singer will read from his work on Thursday, February 16 at 4:30pm in the Crown Center for the Humanities Auditorium at Loyola University Chicago.  Singer’s first book, Discography, was selected by W.S. Merwin as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.  It also won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has published two chapbooks, Passport and Keep Right On Playing Through the Mirror Over the Water, both with Beard of Bees Press. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts,  and his poetry, reviews, creative nonfiction, and essays have recently appeared in Memorious, Pleiades, Sou’wester, Iowa Review, New England Review, and Salmagundi. He lives in New York City.

“Sean Singer’s restless, roving demands upon his language, the quick-changes of his invention in search of some provisional rightness, convey through all their metamorphoses an insistent ring of authenticity that seizes the attention and may remind us that the true sense of the word “original” has to do with the origins of a work and of the talent that produced it: with those sources and impulses that are at once individual and universal, unsounded, irreducible and undeniable.“

—W.S. Merwin

“Many poets would sell their souls for one true poem. Sean Singer has a different relationship with Mephistopheles. He gives his soul away—and it’s given back—and so his poems are freely his; and they are true. Some are purely lyrical; some are written in tongues; they are all written in poetry.”

—Carol Frost

Time: February 16 at 4:30pm

Location: Crown Center for the Humanities Auditorium at Loyola University, 1001 W

Loyola Ave, Chicago.

Contact: Aaron Baker (abaker7@luc.edu)