You’re invited to the April edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.
For April’s event, Donald Berger will speak with Nate Brown about his latest collection of poetry, THE ROSE OF MAINE! Winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023, THE ROSE OF MAINE features the sharp observational style and illuminating humor for which Berger is known and beloved.
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Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome! And while you’re there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand, and enjoy the offerings of nighttime beverages.
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Donald Berger is the author of six books of poetry, The Rose of Maine (SurVision Books), Pizza Necklace (Foundlings Press), The Long Time, a bilingual edition in English and German (Wallstein Publishers , Goettingen, Germany), Or Purchase a Star (Jiddizig Books), Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers) and The Cream-Filled Muse (Fledermaus Press). His poems and prose have appeared in The New Republic, Slate, Conjunctions, Fence, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, The Believer, New American Writing and other publications including some from Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Hong Kong, and mainland China. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, and the James Tate International Poetry Prize, and was also a semi-finalist for Conduit Books’ Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. He currently teaches in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Nate Brown joined the University Writing Program in 2022, after having taught fiction and creative nonfiction for five years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He is a graduate of Cornell University and of the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin, and he has taught composition and creative writing courses at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Stevenson University, Georgetown University, and the George Washington University.
Since graduating from college, he has worked in literary publishing, first at Random House and currently at the award-winning literary journal American Short Fiction, where he serves as the managing editor. He is a board member of Writers in Baltimore Schools, an arts nonprofit serving Baltimore City middle and high school student writers.
His current teaching and research interests include equity and access in contemporary American publishing, visual studies and the intersection of written and visual rhetoric, community-based writing programs, and writing about art and media.
