BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20180918T220000Z UID: 66efd8df0e660 DTSTAMP:20240922T034415Z LOCATION:Brunner Theatre Center DESCRIPTION:Poets and brothers Kai Carlson-Wee and Anders Carlson-Wee will read together at 5 p.m. in the Brunner Theatre Center's Black Box on campus. \;A reception will be held after the reading.\n\nIn addition to co-writing two chapbooks\, the two created the 2017 documentary film "Riding the Highline\," about their trip hopping freight trains \;from Minneapolis \;to Wenatchee\, Wash.\n\nKai Carlson-Wee \;is the author of "RAIL\," forthcoming from BOA Editions. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and \;the Sewanee Writers' Conference.\n\nHis work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Best New Poets\, TriQuarterly\, Blackbird\, Crazyhorse\, and The Missouri Review\, which selected his poems for its 2013 EditorĄŻs Prize.\n\nHis photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, "Riding the Highline\," received jury awards at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival and the 2016 Arizona International Film Festival.\n\nWith his brother Anders\, he has co-authored two chapbooks\, "Mercy Songs" (Diode Editions) and "Two-Headed Boy" (Organic Weapon Arts)\, winner of the 2015 Blair Prize.\n\nA former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University.\n\nAnders Carlson-Wee \;is the author of "The Low Passions" (W.W. Norton\, 2019). His work has appeared in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, Tin House\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry Daily\, The Sun\, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.\n\nHis debut chapbook\, "Dynamite\," won the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the McKnight Foundation\, Bread Loaf\, and the Sewanee WritersĄŻ Conference.\n\nHe is co-director of the award-winning poetry film "Riding the Highline" and winner of Ninth LetterĄŻs Poetry Award\, Blue Mesa ReviewĄŻs Poetry Prize\, New Delta ReviewĄŻs EditorsĄŻ Choice Prize\, and the 2017 Poetry International Prize.\n\nHe holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Minneapolis.\n URL;VALUE=URI:/about-us/events/2018/river-readings-kai-and-anders-carlson-wee SUMMARY:River Readings: Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee DTSTART:20180918T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR