On Thursday, January 24th, I read with Dan Albergotti and Natasha Trethewey as part of a symposium on ekphrasis at Auburn University's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art.


Later...

From The Auburn Plainsman:

For the Auburn graduate and former instructor York, artistic work involving civil rights is clearly an area of importance for his poetry.

He read aloud from his first collection “Murder Ballads,” and responded to, what he referred to as the various “martyrs of the civil rights movement.”

In York’s final readings, he referred to newspaper reports about the racially driven murder of Emmett Till in the poems “Substantiation” and “Collect.”