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UT Creative Writing Series: NEA Poetry Fellow Jose Hernandez Diaz
Category: Free event and Literature, spoken word, writing
The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a poetry reading by current visiting writer, Jose Hernandez Diaz. The reading will take place Monday, September 9 at 7pm in the Lindsey Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public. For a sample of his work: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jose-diaz
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025) and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press, 2025). He has been published in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Iowa Review, Huizache, Grist Journal, The Missouri Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Progressive, Poets.org, The Southern Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has taught creative writing at the University of California at Riverside and online for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, and The Writer's Center. Additionally, he serves as a Poetry Mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program.
Information: chebert3@utk.edu
