An Eveing of New Poetry with Tiana Clark, Shanta Lee, & Ruben Quesada

Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they welcome Tiana Clark, Shanta Lee, and Ruben Quesada, as they read from their new collections!

Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection,Scorched Earth (Simon & Schuster, March 5, 2025); I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize: and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and 2019 Pushcart Prize. Clark is the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships…