author of How to Survive the Apocalypse

Friday, October 28, 1:30 – 4pm (±2:50)

Jacqueline Allen Trimble returns to the symposium with her second collection of poetry How to Survive the Apocalypse, which the Southern Review of Books praised in a recent review, saying, “Trimble takes direct aim at what ails us and what threatens to end us.” Trimble is a Cave Canem fellow whose first poetry collection, American Happiness, was awarded the Balcones Poetry Prize. A native of Montgomery, Alabama, Trimble chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.

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Book Review in Southern Review of Books

Jacqueline Trimble

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