September 12, 2017 ALL

Chris Kempf (’07) Poetry Reading

We’re thrilled to announce that John Carroll University alum and legend from our creative writing program, Christopher Kempf will be giving a talk and a reading at 7 pm on Thursday, September 14th in Rodman Hall, Meeting Room A at John Carroll University.

Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, which won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review Online, The New Republic, PEN America, and Ploughshares, among other places. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Chicago.