SCC to Host Reading by Poet Adrian Matejka on Feb. 26 | Arts & Culture

Southeastern Community College will host award-winning poet Adrian Matejka on Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. in celebration of National African-American History Month. The public is invited to attend the reading, book signing and reception, which will be held free of charge in the College’s auditorium.

Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

His first collection of poems, “The Devil's Garden,” won the 2002 New York/New England Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, “Mixology,” was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. “Mixology” was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His next book, “The Big Smoke,” is forthcoming from Penguin in June 2013.

He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University-Bloomington.

The reading is part of Southeaastern’s Clemmons/IBM Visiting Author Series. For more information, contact Patricia Bjorklund at (910) 642-7141, ext. 299 or patricia.bjorklund@sccnc.edu.