BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv5.21.5//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://events.cal.msu.edu/ BEGIN:VEVENT UID:MEC-16437d40c29a1a7b1e78143c9c38f289@events.cal.msu.edu DTSTART:20261014T230000Z DTEND:20261015T010000Z DTSTAMP:20261007T162500Z CREATED:20261007 LAST-MODIFIED:20261007 SUMMARY:The Poetry Gallery: Sasha Debevec-McKenney DESCRIPTION:\nJoin Sasha Debevec-McKenney, a poet who studies the presidents, for a poetry reading in the galleries of We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment. Debevec-McKenney has conducted long-term embodied research into key sites of American national identity—visiting all of the existing presidential libraries and writing poems in response to them. Her poetry invites us to consider American history and the stories we tell about our nation. A meet-and-greet book signing will follow.\n\n\n\nDebevec-McKenney’s performance kicks off The Poetry Gallery presented by the RCAH Center for Poetry, a series bringing poetry into conversation with art and the American experience.  \n\n\n\nThis event is offered in connection with We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment. On view Aug. 22, 2026–Mar. 14, 2027, We Are This Land brings together artists who invite us to reflect on our history, consider our present, and imagine brighter futures. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free; please click here to register.\n\n\n\nSasha Debevec-McKenney’s debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name won the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers. She was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift, and Granta. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and teaches poetry in Michigan.\n\n\n\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join Sasha Debevec-McKenney, a poet who studies the presidents, for a poetry reading in the galleries of We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment. Debevec-McKenney has conducted long-term embodied research into key sites of American national identity—visiting all of the existing presidential libraries and writing poems in response to them. Her poetry invites us to consider American history and the stories we tell about our nation. A meet-and-greet book signing will follow.

Debevec-McKenney’s performance kicks off The Poetry Gallery presented by the RCAH Center for Poetry, a series bringing poetry into conversation with art and the American experience.  

This event is offered in connection with We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment. On view Aug. 22, 2026–Mar. 14, 2027, We Are This Land brings together artists who invite us to reflect on our history, consider our present, and imagine brighter futures. 

Admission is free; please click here to register.

Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name won the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers. She was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift, and Granta. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and teaches poetry in Michigan.

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