Poetry discussion: Adrian Matejka's Map to the Stars

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fishers Library
Fishers Center

Event Details

Celebrate National Poetry Month and join us for a discussion of Adrian Matejka's latest poetry book Map to the Stars.  You may pick up a copy of Map to the Stars at the Adult Services Desk at both the Fishers and Noblesville libraries starting March 1st.  

Join us again on Saturday April 28th at 1 PM when Adrian Matejka, recently named 2018 Indiana poet laureate, will be reading from his poetry at the Fishers Library.  

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York/New England Award and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. Mixology was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature.

Adrian’s poetry collection The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013) received the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. It was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and 2014 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His new book, Map to the Stars, was released from Penguin in March 2017. Publishers Weekly notes that “in his stellar fourth collection, Matejka evokes an Indianapolis boyhood in which economic and educational privations starkly contrast with the inspiring expanses of outer space. Newly identified planets, space shuttle launches, Star Trek, and Voyager probes encountered via radio, TV, and newspaper here become poignant emblems of escape.”

Among Adrian’s other honors are the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, two grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Julia Peterkin Award, a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation and a Simon Fellowship from United States Artists. He teaches in the MFA program at Indiana University in Bloomington and is currently working on a new collection of poems, Hearing Damage, and a graphic novel.


Event Type(s): Adult Programs, Book Discussions
Heidi
(317) 579-0307