Eduardo C. Corral reads at Tulane on March 15

Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading at Tulane University at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, at Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center, room 205 (6832 St. Charles Ave.).

This event is sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and Tulane University. Admission is free. After the reading, Corral will sit for questions with Peter Cooley, who is the Director of Creative Writing at Tulane, as well as a Professor of English and Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities. A reception will follow the event.

Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from Arizona State University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, Beloit Poetry Journal, Huizache, Jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Quarterly West. His work has been honored with a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry, and writing residencies to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.