This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: American Classics.

Nathaniel Mackey is Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University. Winner of a National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry among numerous honors, Mackey’s poetry combines African mythology, African-American musical traditions like jazz, and an open, serial form. As he says of his work, “I approach my writing as 'of a piece' in more senses than one, admittedly fractional but wanting to imply—all the more wanting to imply—the proverbial whole the parts fail to add up to."

Nathaniel Mackey is the William B. Hart Poet in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2016.

The reading will be in English. You can watch this event livestreamed at https://livestream.com/aarome.