Join us at the Anderson Collection for an evening of poetry!
Bay Area poets and Stanford students share poems inspired by the Anderson Collection. Travel through the museum to hear poets read alongside the works that inspired them. Come learn about their process and write a little something of your own in response to prompts the poets will offer. We hope you'll go home with inspiration and the seeds of ekphrastic poems of your own!
Wednesday, April 9
5:30-7PM
Doors open at 5:15
Anderson Collection
314 Lomita Drive
This event is hosted by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI) in collaboration with the Anderson Collection, and with support from the Office of the Vice President for the Arts.
If you need a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact us at artsinstitute@stanford.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.
Poets
Photo by Emily Petrie
Blas Falconer
Horse
Deborah Butterfield (1980)
Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024) and Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018). He is also the coeditor of two anthologies: The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (The University of Arizona Press, 2011), with Lorraine M. López, and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), with Beth Martinelli and Helena Mesa. Falconer is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University and is the editor-in-chief at Poetry International Online.
Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz Fatemi, an Iranian American poet from Santa Cruz, CA, is the author of Sister Tongue زبان خواهر, (Kent State University Press). Farnaz is the recent Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate and founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective. She is also an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow. Farnaz’s poems and essays appear in Kenyon Review, RHINO Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, No Tokens Journal, Poets.org, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org and elsewhere. More at www.farnazfatemi.com
Photo by Veronica Riedel
Mia Malhotra
Ocean Park #60
Richard Diebenkorn (1973)
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (Alice James Books, forthcoming May 2025) and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of the chapbook Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Contest. Mia holds degrees in creative writing from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and her work has received the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. She is a Kundiman Fellow and founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists.
Photo by Douglas A. Salin
Kim Shuck
Kim Shuck is solo author of 10 books of poetry and prose, co-author of two more books, and editor of another 12. Shuck has won some awards, earned some degrees and hosted an absurd number of poetry readings. Kim's latest book is Pick a Garnet to Sleep In, and latest collaboration is Deer/Awi with Denise Low. Shuck is the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita.
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