Allison Titus, Blackbird

A Reading by Mathias Svalina & Allison Titus

Allison Titus received her MFA in fiction from VCU in 2003 and her MFA in poetry from Vermont College in 2005. Her first full-length book of poems, Sum of Every Lost Ship , was published by CSU Press in 2009. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal , won the 2006 Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize. Titus is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2011. Recently, her poems have appeared in absent magazine , Crazyhorse , Denver Quarterly , and Octopus Magazine . One of her stories has also appeared in Ninth Letter .