Faculty Presentation: John Murillo, Didi Jackson, and Liz Collins
Monday, August 10, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with poets John Murillo and Didi Jackson, and artist Liz Collins.
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About Our Speakers
John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His translation of Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels is available from Four Way Books. He is a professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Liz Collins is an NYC- based artist known for her dynamic fiber works that vary in scale, form, and context. Her solo exhibitions and installations have been at the RISD Museum, Museum of Arts and Design , the Tang Museum, and Touchstones Rochdale (England), among others. Collins has been in dozens of group shows: the New Museum, the Drawing Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Leslie Lohman Museum, LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Addison Gallery, ICA/Boston, and the Venice Biennale in 2025. Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Drawing Center Open Sessions program, Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship.
