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Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA “Best in the West” award, and the 2007 Poets’ Prize, among others. The poems in Here, Bullet reflect Turner’s experiences as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence, while deploring the violence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war. In 2009, Turner was selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows. In his second book of poems, Phantom Noise (Alice James, 2010), Turner tells us what happens to a person and a culture when a soldier brings the war home with him. The book was shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry.
February 21: Vet poet Brian Turner brings his experiences to UIndy
Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA “Best in the West” award, and the 2007 Poets’ Prize, among others. The poems in Here, Bullet reflect Turner’s experiences as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence, while deploring the violence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war. In 2009, Turner was selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows. In his second book of poems, Phantom Noise (Alice James, 2010), Turner tells us what happens to a person and a culture when a soldier brings the war home with him. The book was shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry.When: Tuesday February 21, 7:30 pm
Where: University of Indianapolis Good Hall – Recital Hall, 1400 East Hanna Avenue
For additional information, please contact Elizabeth Weber at (317) 788-3373. For more information, contact: largentj@uindy.edu
