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DESCRIPTION:Reading and signing with award-winning Poet\, Jonah Mixon-Webst
 er\n\nJonah Mixon-Webster is a poet\, educator\, scholar\, and art activis
 t from Flint\, MI. He is the founder of the Flint-based non-profit Center 
 for Imaginative Freedoms and Economic Relief (C.I.F.E.R.) and serves as ch
 apter leader of PEN America-Detroit. His debut poetry collection\, Stereo(
 TYPE)\, received the PEN America/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist 
 for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He is an alumnus of Eastern 
 Michigan University and obtained a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Illinois
  State University. He is the inaugural Mellon Arts Postdoctoral Fellow in 
 African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University\, the
  recipient of the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry and fellowships from V
 ermont Studio Center\, Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, Im
 ages & Voices of Hope\, The Conversation Literary Festival\, and the PEN W
 riting for Justice Program. His poetry and hybrid works are featured in va
 rious publications including Obsidian\, Harper’s\, The Yale Review\, The
  Rumpus\, Callaloo\, Pennsound\, Best New Poets\, and Best American Experi
 mental Writing.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of Creative W
 riting and is part of FESTIBA 2024\n\nFor more information or accommodatio
 ns\, please contact emmy.perez@utrgv.edu
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SUMMARY:UTRGV FESTIBA & Black History Month Event with Jonah Mixon-Webster
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