Cincinnati Launch of No Rhododendron with Samyak Shertok

Celebrate Samyak Shertok's No Rhododendron, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

Hear readings poets Yalie Saweda Kamara (former Mindful Poetry Moments 2023 curator!) and Rebecca Lindendenberg followed by a book signing and reading from Samyak Shertok. Enjoy conversation and refreshments after!

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Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His honors include the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Originally from Nepal, he was the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University and teaches creative writing at Mississippi State University.

Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Kamara’s debut full-length poetry collection, Besaydoo, was published by Milkweed Editions in January, 2024. Selected as the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (2-year term) and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, she is the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration and the author of the chapbooks A Brief Biography of My Name and When the Living Sing. Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University and resides in Cincinnati.

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible, The Logan Notebooks, winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award, and Love, an Index. She’s the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award, an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, among others. Her works appear in American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry, Iowa Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati where she is also Poetry Editor of the Cincinnati Review.

With The Well, Samyak has collaborated with Mindful Poetry Moments, where most recently his poem "A Blessing" inspired a section of Mindful Poetry Moments 2024.

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