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Item Drug Dealers: The Opioid Epidemic(Honors Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2019-11-15) Lembke, AnnaDr. Anna Lembke, Associate Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine read from her book, "Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop." The presentation explains how addiction works, why people get addicted, and how there are many structural components to the opioid crisis in the US. Dr Lembke is a TED speaker and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and commentaries, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Addiction. She is the author of a bestselling book on the prescription drug epidemic: Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2016).Item Black Metaphors: Race, Rhetoric, and the Middle Ages The(Scholars' Symposia, The University of Tampa, 2019-11-08) Whitaker, CordThe Middle Ages come up again and again in the discourse of white supremacists in the United States. This talk investigates the value of the Middle Ages to race and racism by exploring modern understandings of feudalism, caste systems, and racial homogeny in medieval Europe. This talk asks: How did the Middle Ages make race? How can we use that knowledge to disempower racism and make the world better?Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Matthew Vollmer(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-18) Vollmer, MatthewThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Matthew Vollmer reads from his book Permanent Exhibit. Matthew Vollmer is the author of two collections of short fiction, Gateway to Paradise (Persea Books, 2015) and Future Missionaries of America (published by MacAdam Cage and Salt Modern Fiction, 2010), as well as inscriptions for headstones, a collection of essays (Outpost19, 2012). With David Shields, he is the co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (W. W. Norton, 2012). Vollmer is also the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, a volume of everyday invocations from over 60 writers, each of whom were charged with writing–regardless of their religious inclinations–a prayer. His fourth book, Permanent Exhibit, a collection of short prose, was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in the Fall of 2018. Vollmer’s work has appeared widely in magazines, including: Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House and many others.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jason Ockert and Jerrod Schwarz(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20) Ockert, Jason; Schwarz, JerrodThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories: Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. He is the winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best American Mystery Stories, Oxford American, The Iowa Review and many others. He teaches writing at Coastal Carolina University and also teaches in the MFA program at The University of Tampa. Jerrod Schwarz teaches creative writing at The University of Tampa and STEM programs at the Glazer Children’s Museum. His poetry has appeared in print/online journals such as PANK, Entropy, Opossum, The Fem, Inklette and many more. Most recently, his erasure poetry was highlighted on New Republic and Poetry Foundation. His first chapbook (The Crop) was published by Rinky Dink Press in 2016. He finished his MFA in Creative Writing at UT in May 2017.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: John Capouya and Ben Montgomery(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-15) Montgomery, Ben; Capouya, JohnThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. John Capouya reads from his book Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. Ben Montgomery reads from his book The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression. John Capouya is an author and professor of journalism and non-fiction writing at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. During his career in journalism he worked at Newsweek, The New York Times, SmartMoney, and New York Newsday. He wrote the books Florida Blues, Gorgeous George, and Real Men Do Yoga. He has also written for various publications, including Sports Illustrated, Life, Tampa Bay Times, and Travel & Leisure. Ben Montgomery is the author of the New York Times bestseller Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which won the 2014 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography. An award-winning staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times, Montgomery was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2010.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Keetje Kuipers(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17) Kuipers, KeetjeThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Keetje Kuipers reads from her book of poetry All Its Charms. Writer and editor Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets & Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail (2014), was a book club selection for The Rumpus, and her third book, All Its Charms (2019), includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jehanne Dubrow(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-14) Dubrow, JehanneThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Sandra Beasley. Jehanne Dubrow reads from her book of poetry American Samizdat. Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently, American Samizdat, and a book of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes. Her previous poetry collections are Dots & Dashes, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award, The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, Stateside, From the Fever-World, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse. Her eighth book of poems, Simple Machines, which was just selected as the winner of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, will be published by the University of Evansville Press in November 2019.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kristen Arnett(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19) Arnett, KristenThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Novelist Kristen Arnett reads from her book Mostly Dead Things. Kristen Arnett is the NYT bestselling author of the debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, '19). She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction and is a columnist for Literary Hub. Her work has appeared at North American Review, The Normal School, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Guernica, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, Bennington Review, Tin House Flash Fridays/The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her story collection, Felt in the Jaw, was published by Split Lip Press and was awarded the 2017 Coil Book Award. She is a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute.