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Distinguished Writers Series - Paisley Rekdal

December 10, 2019
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Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal

On 12/10/2019, Hunter hosted this public program.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a nonfiction books The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, Appropriate: A Provocation and Intimate, and six books of poetry, most recently Nightingale. She is the recipient of multiple honors and in 2019 was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

Paisley joined the Hunter community for the Distinguished Writers Series as she read excerpts from her books, Nightingale and Imaginary Vessels.

Watch the program below. 

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