The Friends of the University Library invite you to join us for a presentation by Emerita English Professor, Mary Mackey, entitled: The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, as this terms offering in the Charles Martell Author Lecture Series.
Professor Mackey will reveal how extremely high fevers and an inability to calculate risk combined with living in the jungles of Costa Rica and the Amazon, inspired her to write bestselling novels and award-winning poems and screenplays. Her lecture will include readings from The Jaguars that Prowl our Dreams, the winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Prize for the Best Book Published by a Small Press. She has also promised a glimpse into her newest work, In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse which will be released in May by her publisher, Marsh Hawk Press.
Mary Mackey writes of life, death, love, and passion with intensity and grace. Her poems are hugely imaginative and multi-layered, which are often unified by an exploration of the tropical jungle outside and within us, plus a surreal and sometimes hallucinatory appreciation of the visionary power of fever.
Professor Mackey is well known on campus as one of the founders of the English Department’s graduate and undergraduate Creative Writing Programs also for her impressive body of work encompassing fourteen published novels, nine collections of poetry, and over a dozen film scripts.
DATE: Thursday, February 27, 2025
TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Harper Alumni Center, livestreamed via Zoom Webinar
REGISTER: This event will be offered in-person and livestreamed, to register, please select the appropriate registration button.
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This event includes accessible seating, to request additional accommodations such as ASL interpretation, please contact the University Library (lib-events@csus.edu) at least five (5) business days in advance of the event or as soon as possible.
Free parking available, upon request.