Poetry Reading by Wanda Phipps
September 12, 2016
Thursday, 10/6 at 11 a.m.; University Club, Knapp Hall
Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in NYC and born in Washington, D.C. She studied theater and English literature at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, acting at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA and poetry at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO.
She is the author of Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire, Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, the chapbooks Lunch Poems, Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets, Silent Pictures Recognize the World and Rose Window or Prosettes (Dusie Press), After the Mishap (Faux Press e-chapbooks) and the CD-Rom Zither Mood (Faux Press). Her poetry has been published over 100 times in a variety of publications, including the anthologies Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain From the Poemfone Poets and The Boog Reader. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Bangla and Galician. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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