Loyola University Maryland's Bunting Peace and Justice Speaker Series
“Singing into the Wound: An Evening of Poetry & Conversation with Brian Turner”
Brian Turner is an award-winning poet and memoirist. His keynote talk will explore conflict, love, and resilience through storytelling and verse. Turner is the author of five collections of poetry, including Here, Bullet, a first-person account of his experience as a soldier during the Iraq War, for which he received the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, Turner has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.