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Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Donald Morrill(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-20) Morrill, DonaldThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. Donald Morrill is the Associate Dean, Graduate and Continuing Studies and Dana Professor of English at The University of Tampa. He is the author of four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper , The Untouched Minutes (River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool (American Library Association/AAUP “Best of the Presses” Award) and A Stranger’s Neighborhood . He is also the author of three volumes of poetry, Awaiting Your Impossibilities, With Your Back to Half the Day and At the Bottom of the Sky.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: John Capouya(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-17) Capouya, JohnThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. John Capouya specializes in teaching journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing at The University of Tampa. He was a working journalist in New York City for many years, including stints at Newsweek and SmartMoney magazines, and the newspapers New York Newsday and The New York Times. His most recent book is Florida Soul, a history of rhythm and blues music in the Sunshine State, published by the University Press of Florida.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Tommy Pico(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-18) Pico, TommyThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency with an introduction by MFA Director Erica Dawson. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), Junk (forthcoming 2018 from Tin House Books), the zine series Hey, Teebs and the chapbook app absentMINDR (VerbalVisual 2014). He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.