Kellogg Writers Series: April Gibson (Poetry Reading)

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Schwitzer Student Center, UIndy Hall A
Poetry Reading
L/P Credit Available

Free and open to the public!

The Kellogg Writers Series brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings.

April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor from the South Side of Chicago. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. April is a winner of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Award in Poetry. She has been a Writer-in-Residence for WriteOn, Door County, and a Vermont Studio Center resident. April is a fellow of the Poetry Incubator (Poetry Foundation), the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. She is also a Tin House and VONA Writing Workshop alum and her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She teaches in the Department of English, Literature, and Speech at Malcolm X College in Chicago.

Praise:
“The poet April Gibson heard us when we pleaded how we needed something new. She felt the shift in the wind when we reached for something revelatory bare. The Span of a Small Forever is a book for the unsung. After reading, we all will become closer to the small and mighty miracles within.”—Derrick Harriell, author of Cotton and Ropes

“The Span of a Small Forever is the unpretentious feat of a writer with a crystalline vision. This collection of poems centers self-love, reclamation of this woman’s power… Gibson is a tough and tender somebody, whose pen illuminates illness and the radiance of the small beauties in everyday life.” —Maya Marshall, author of All the Blood Involved in Love