Midwest Poets Series: Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis is the author of three books of poetry: “Blue-Tail Fly” (Wayne State University Press, 2006), “Horse in the Dark” (winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection, Northwestern University Press, 2016) and “Forest Primeval” (winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Best American Poetry 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019, and “Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry.” She has been a participant in the Cave Canem Workshops, a Poet-in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, and teaches poetry writing in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop (USA, UK, and Barbados). In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. She serves as an associate editor of Callaloo and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Sign up here to receive the online link.