Thursday, February 9th at 5:10pm at the UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium, Calvin Forbes will be reading at an evening of poetry. Forbes lives in Chicago, teaching at the School of Art Institute. He’s written two books, Blue Monday and The Shine Poems (MFA Events Calendar). He also studies jazz history, and his love of jazz has greatly influenced his poetry. On the Poetry Foundation’s website, he describes his work as “simplicity shacked up with complexity.” I’m super excited to hear Forbes read – anyone with that quote about their writing is already awesome in my book 🙂
For more information, hit up the MFA Events Calendar at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventsCalendar.asp
