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Tabula Poetica: The Center for Poetry at Chapman University is dedicated to creating an environment to celebrate poetry in a variety of forms and venues. Here, we foster a culture of poetry appreciationby engaging and supporting the veteran writer, the novice poet, the student, and the general reader in an effort to share poems and conversation about this art form.

Of William Stobb’s 2011 collection, Absentia (Penguin Poets), Alison Hawthorne Deming writes, “Stobb writes with ease, wit, conversational jags, and deliciously terse eloquence. The vitality of these poems, the necessity of their questioning, makes life feel deep and strange and satisfying.” Stobb’s other books include the National Poetry Series selection Nervous Systems (Penguin, 2007) and a collection of desert fragments, Artifact Eleven (Black Rock, 2011). In 2012, Stobb’s poem “A Moment for Authentic Shine” won the Editors’ Prize from Spoon River Poetry Review, and a short film based on his desert poems appeared on The Volta (www.thevolta.org/medium-issue18-wstobb.html). With David Krump and Will Bulka, Stobb is co-author of Predator: The Musical, which concluded its second successful run at Chicago’s Stage 773 in July of 2012. A finalist for the 2011 New American Fiction Prize, Stobb’s novel,Aces, remains unpublished. William lives with his family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he works on the editorial staff of Conduit (www.conduit.org) and on the English Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Event Location: Henley Room, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University