Zell Visiting Writers Series: Distinguished Writer in Residence Richard Siken – Reading and Q&A
Join us in welcoming writer Richard Siken for a reading and Q&A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.
Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His third collection of poems, I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon, 2025), was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry.
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
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Richard Siken
Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His third collection of poems, I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon, 2025), was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon, 2015), a Lannan Literary Selection, and Crush (Yale University Press, 2005), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by Louise Glück, the LAMBDA Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and The Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Siken has received fellowships from Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson.
SUPPORT
The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.