Poet Dan Albergotti to Give Reading at UT Feb. 28

On Tuesday, Feb. 28, award-winning poet Dan Albergotti will give a reading at The University of Tampa as part of the Writers at the University series and the Florida Literary Arts Coalition’s Writer’s Circuit. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, 310 North Blvd., and is free and open to the public.

Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), which was the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), which was the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition in 2013. He is also the author of a limited-edition chapbook, The Use of the World (Unicorn Press, 2013).

His first chapbook, Charon’s Manifest, won the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Competition, and one of his poems was reprinted in Best New Poets 2005. His poem “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale” won the 2005 Oneiros Press Poetry Broadside Contest and was printed in a limited letterpress edition in March 2007. In spring 2008 his poem “What They’re Doing” was selected for a Pushcart Prize.

Albergotti’s poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Five Points, Mid-American Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and other journals.

He is a professor and chair of the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University.

For more information, contact Don Morrill at (813) 257-3557.

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