March 2, 2026 | 7 pm @ University of Tennessee
The UT Creative Writing Program presents a reading by poet Gabrielle Bates. The reading takes placeMonday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Bates is the author of "Judas Goat," aNew York Times Book ReviewCritic's Pick, an NPR Best Book of 2023, and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. The recipient of support from the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, her writing has been featured in theNew Yorker,the Believer,Ploughshares, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day,Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Alabama, based for a decade in Seattle, she serves as social media manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcastThe Poet Salon, and teaches occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA Program, and the Tin House Writers' Workshops.www.gabriellebat.es.
For select poems and more, see Gabrielle Bates’s page at thePoetry Foundation.
Category: Literature