Eric Paul Shaffer
The University of Central Arkansas will continue the Visiting Poet Series with a campus visit and reading by Hawaii poet Eric Paul Shaffer at 7 p.m., March 12, 2024, in the McCastlain Hall Art Lecture room on the UCA campus.
Shaffer’s reading is open to the public and is free of charge.
Shaffer has been a contributor to Slant since 2006 and is the author of eight poetry books, including his most recent collection, Green Leaves: Selected and New Poems, published by Coyote Arts Press in 2023. He has had over 600 of his poems appear in literary journals worldwide.
Shaffer has received several awards for his work including the Elliot Cades Award, Hawaii’s most prestigious literary prize in 2002, the Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Award in 2006 and 2019, and the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry in 2009.
After a stint living and teaching on the Japanese island of Okinawa, Shaffer moved to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he now teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Honolulu Community College.
In addition to his public reading, he will meet with students in two poetry classes on March 13, 2024. The series is jointly sponsored by the UCA School of Language and Literature and Slant, the school’s international journal of contemporary poetry.
For more information on Shaffer’s campus visit, contact Slant editor Michael Blanchard at mblanchard@uca.edu.