Siken will also read at Texas State’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle on Friday, Feburary 10, at 7:30 p.m. Books will be for sale by the University Bookstore. This Therese Kayser Lindsey / Katherine Anne Porter Series event is co-sponsored by Texas State’s English Department, the Burdine Johnson Foundation, and the Wittliff Collections. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 'Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.

Siken's poems have also appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review and Forklift, Ohio, as well as in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2000 and Legitimate Dangers. The desire to touch, the gesture of touching, becomes dangerous, damaging, after the hand, withheld for so long, finally makes an attempt at contact.” In a recent Bomblog interview, Siken says, “ Crush, at its core, is about rupture. Siken's poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. SAN MARCOS, TX - This Thursday the Wittliff Collections at Texas State are pleased to present nationally recognized poet Richard Siken.

RICHARD SIKEN Reading | Book Signing | Q&A Clete Shields Sculptures at The Wittliff.Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection.

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