Denison’s Beck Series welcomes poet Solmaz Sharif. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Sharif’s first poetry collection “Look” was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Witness, and others and has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, scholarships the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an NEA fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University.