Canisius presents Benjamin Alire Saenz who will read from his works on Monday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. Saenz’s reading, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a question and answer period and a book signing.
Saenz is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University and his poetry has earned him an American Book Award and a Lannan poetry fellowship. His latest offering, a collection of short stories entitled Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, was awarded the 2013 PEN Faulkner Award for fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. Saenz’s latest young adult novel, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, has been translated into 10 languages and won The Pura Belpre Award, The Stonewall Award, a Lambda Literary Award and was named as a Printz Honor Book.
The event is co-sponsored by the Canisius College Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Sigma Delta Pi, Unity and embraceWNY.
For more information, contact Richard Reitsma, PhD, assistant professor of Spanish and Latin America Studies, at Ext. 2408 or reitsmar@canisius.edu.
Submitted by: Richard Reitsma, PhD, associate professor, Spanish and Latin American Studies
