Join us on Friday, March 12, at 12:00 PM, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Kay Rosen, poet Forrest Gander, and Skidmore professor April Bernard. Register via Zoom.

Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.

About the Speakers

Kay Rosen was born in 1943 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Trained in linguistics, Rosen has investigated the visual possibilities of language for fifty years through a range of mediums, including paintings, drawings, multiples, murals, collages, and videos. Rosen’s work has been the subject of numerous articles, reviews, and group and solo exhibitions and projects worldwide. Her new exterior installation titled SORRY opens April 10, 2021 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She has been the recipient of awards that include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grants. Rosen taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 24 years.

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert, grew up in Virginia, and taught at Harvard and Brown University. Among Gander’s most recent books are Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Twice Alive, forthcoming in May. Gander’s recent translations include Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems by Gozo Yoshimasu and Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems. He has a history of collaborating with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, and Vic Chesnutt. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations, Gander lives in northern California.

April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her most recent books are Brawl & Jag (poems) and Miss Fuller, a novel. Her previous books of poems are Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye. Bernard is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and other journals, is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Skidmore College, and also teaches in the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars.