Well Versed

Well Versed

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English Professor Vievee Francis wins prestigious poetry award.

Her work has been called “dark, Dantean” and “dreamlike in its visions” by the editor of Poetry magazine. And Francis, who joined the faculty last fall, says she’s living something of a dream off the written page. In February she learned that her poetry collection Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2015) had won the Kingsley Tufts Award, bestowed by Claremont Graduate University upon a distinguished mid-career poet. Forest Primeval, which she describes as “antipastoral,” had already garnered the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. To read about other faculty award winners, see page 18.