Creative Sustenance Benefit Reading
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:30–6:30 PM
- LocationUConn Barnes & Noble Bookstore, One Royce Circle, Storrs, CT
- DescriptionDarcie Dennigan writes novels, poetry, and performance texts. Little Neck is her second work of fiction and was shortlisted for the 2022 New Directions Novel Prize. She is an Associate Professor-in-Residence in the English department at the University of Connecticut. Kyle Booten is the author of Gyms (dispersed holdings, 2025), a book that records his interactions with nine algorithmic "word gyms" that he designed to strain and retrain his poetic faculties. He also wrote Salon des Fantômes (Inside the Castle, 2024) and, with Katy Ilonka Gero, and edits Ensemble Park: A Journal of Human+Computer Writing. His algorithmically mediated writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Lana Turner, Boston Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Blackbox Manifold and elsewhere. Nightingale, his browser extension that injects the web with contextually relevant excerpts from the poetry of John Keats, is available for free in the Chrome Web Store. He is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut. Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Her second book of poems The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books, 2025) won the Alma Book Award, and her first book Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007/2019) won the Gil Ott Award. She is co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and the founding editor of EOAGH, a small press which has won two Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award. Her scholarship and research have previously been supported by an NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, and she has most recently taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
- Websitehttps://events.uconn.edu/creative-writing-program/event/1299420-creative-sustenance-benefit-reading
- CategoriesArt & Performance, Conferences & Speakers