Carrie Fountain’s first book of Poetry, Burn Lake, won the 2009 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin. Her new book, Instant Winner, is an exploration of motherhood, spirituality, identity and everyday life. Fountain will visit the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) on November 12th at 7 p.m. to read from her work, discuss her writing process and answer questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public. The Joynes Reading Room has a limited number of free books by Carrie Fountain to give away to interested students. Inquire at the Joynes Room front desk. 

Malachi Black is the author of the poetry collection Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).  His poems appear in journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, AGNI, Narrative, The Southern Review, and Southwest Review, among others, and his work has several times been set to music and otherwise featured in exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of San Diego. Black will read in the Joynes Room (CRD 007) on Thursday, November 20th at 7 p.m. A limited number of free books will be available before the reading.