Cleopatra Mathis!

We're thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning poet Cleopatra Mathis to Columbia next month. Cleopatra will be reading from her work and also appearing on our panel, IN DOG WE TRUST.

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Cleopatra has published seven collections of poetry. Most recent, from Sarabande Books, are White Sea, awarded the May Sarton Book Prize, and Book of Dog, which won the Sheila Motten Book Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in magazines, and journals, including the New Yorker, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and Three Penny Review, as well as numerous anthologies and textbooks. Awards for her work include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two Pushcart Prizes, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.