Brian Turner, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-2-2023
Location
University Theatre
Author/Artist Bio
Brian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently: The Wild Delight of Wild Things (2023), The Goodbye World Poem (2023), and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (2023), all forthcoming with Alice James Books. His other collections include Here, Bullet to Phantom Noise, and the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country. He is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion’s American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.
Description
The reading took place on Monday, October 2, 2023, at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University.
Recommended Citation
Turner, Brian, "Brian Turner, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2023). 46th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 1-5, 2023. 12.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2023/12