Poet Michelle Boisseau to Give Reading at UT March 28

On Tuesday, March 28, award-winning poet Michelle Boisseau 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.

Boisseau is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Among the Gorgons (University of Tampa Press, 2016), which was the winner of the 2015 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Her other works include A Sunday in God-Years (University of Arkansas Press, 2009); Trembling Air (University of Arkansas Press, 2003), which was a PEN USA finalist; Understory (Northeastern University Press, 1996), which received the Morse Prize; and No Private Life (Vanderbilt; 1990). Her university text book, Writing Poems (Longman), is in its eighth edition.

She has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, most recently in 2010.

Boisseau is professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she is also senior editor of BkMk Press and contributing editor of New Letters.

For more information, contact Lynne Bartis at lbartis@ut.edu or (813) 257-3514.

Related Stories:

UT to Host Annual Adam Smith Breakfast April 13

On Thursday, April 13, join The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business for the annual Adam Smith Society Breakfast. The event will run from 7:30–9:30 a.m. in the Crescent Club on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center on campus, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd.

The Adam Smith Society Breakfast is geared toward local business community members operating in the global economy. The event includes breakfast as well as an update on the Tampa Bay economy by John Stinespring, UT associate professor of economics, and Vivekanand Jayakumar, UT associate professor of economics.

Exonerated Death Row Inmate Juan Melendez to Speak at UT Honors Symposium April 13

Imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on death row for a crime you didn’t commit. On Thursday, April 13, The University of Tampa Honors Program symposia series will welcome Juan Roberto Melendez, who will share his experience of being wrongly convicted and spending almost 18 years on Florida’s death row. His talk, titled “Presumed Guilty: Injustice, Survival and Hope on Death Row,” begins at 4 p.m. in the Crescent Club on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public.

The Boys in the Bubble (App)

During freshmen orientation in the fall, Michael Joyce ’20met a lot of new friends but found it a pain to track down each person’s manysocial media handles. So Joyce, along with Andrew Bernstein ’20, created amobile application they call Bubble.

Launching at UT’s Party in the Park on April 7, the Bubbleapp is a tool that allows users to connect to their friends’ social mediaaccounts seamlessly. In addition, users can create groups, called bubbles, andwhen those groups of people go out to a restaurant together, they can receiveup to 25 percent off their meal at places like Tampa Pizza Company and DailyEats.