Open a
Business
- This event has passed.
Presentation & Signing: Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia by Emily Schulten
April 19 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
FreeSaturday, April 19, 2025 – 5:00pm
COME CELEBRATE POETRY MONTH
GET YOUR TICKET TODAY!
About the Author:
Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, including Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia, the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize winner, and The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar, a 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist, and. The recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, her poetry and nonfiction appear in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Schulten is the Poet Laureate of the City of Key West, where she serves as a Professor of English and creative writing and the director of CFK Poetics at The College of the Florida Keys.
Originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, Schulten earned her master’s degree in English from Western Kentucky University and her Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State University. She is the winner of the 2024 Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize for her nonfiction and poetry, and the 2016 Erskine J. Prize for Poetry. She lives in Key West with her husband and their son.
This is a free event but please receive a spot.
Event address:
644A Cookman Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712