Best-Selling Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil to Appear at Dominican University

Best-selling poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will headline Dominican University’s annual Caesar and Patricia Tabet Poetry Reading on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Martin Recital Hall.
Tickets are $15 for the general public or free to DU students, faculty and staff.
To attend, register via https://www.dom.edu/arts-minds/st-catherine-siena-center/annual-caesar-and-patricia-tabet-poetry-reading-0

Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times best-selling author of the poetry collection Night Owl, and two illustrated essay collections: Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees and World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments, which was a Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. She is also author of the award-winning poetry collections Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At The Drive-In Volcano, and Miracle Fruit, and co-author of the chapbook Lace & Pyrite. 

Her writing appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review and The Paris Review. 
Additional honors include a poetry fellowship from US Artist Fellows, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Nezhukumatathil is Poetry Editor for The Sierra Club’s magazine, Sierra, and former poetry editor of Orion Magazine. A professor of English and creative writing for over 25 years, she also serves as a firefly guide for Mississippi State Parks.  

A book signing will follow the poetry reading and books will be available for purchase in the lobby.
This reading is co-presented with the Department of English and the St. Catherine of Siena Center and is made possible in part by the generosity of Rosary College alumna Patricia Tabet, ‘52.

Dominican University is located at 7900 W. Division St. in River Forest.