Reading by Amanda Hodes, winner of the 2024 Levine Prize
Fresno State's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing presents an evening with author Amanda Hodes, winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Hosted by faculty author Mai Der Vang.
The reading, as part of the Fresno Poets' Association series, includes a book signing. Author books for sale from Judging by the Cover. Sponsored by the Fresno State MFA program and Fresno Poets' Association philanthropic partners.
Time: 6 to 7:30 PM
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026
Place: Fresno State Library (LIB 2206)
Admission: Free
Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her collection Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming in September 2026 from Black Lawrence Press. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Augusta University in Georgia, and she previously taught creative writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory and Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared in FENCE, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, AMBIT, West Branch, Raleigh Review, Interim Poetics, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. As an artist, she is interested in sound installation as a route to an embodied, spatial poetics. Her new media work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, and Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology.