The University of Wynwood Visiting Poet Series, sponsored by Knight Foundation, continues this Spring with its first-ever husband-and-wife visitors: Stacey Lynn Brown and Adrian Matejka.

Beginning at 7 p.m., Brown and Matejka will read from their work, participate in a brief Q&A, and sign books at Books & Books Coral Gables.

Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at Emory University, Oxford University, and The University of Oregon, where she received her MFA in Poetry. A poet, playwright, and essayist, her work appears widely. Her book-length poem in sections, Cradle Song, was published by C&R Press in January, 2009. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, where she lives with her husband, poet Adrian Matejka, and their daughter.

Listen to Stacey evoke the South

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany but grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2010. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Sou’wester and co-directs the River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series.

Listen to Adrian explain the importance of Al Green