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<h5><b><font size=5 face="Felix Titling"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Felix Titling"'>Celebrate National Poetry Month</span></font></b></h5>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
Poetry Reading at </span></b></span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Palm
Springs</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> Public Library <br>
300 </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>S. Sunrise</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> Way, (760) 322-7323</span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Saturday
April 14, 2007</span></font></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>1:30-3:30pm</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> <br>
Featuring Roger Weingarten & Kate Fetherston<br>
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Roger Weingarten is the author of ten collections of poetry including <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Premature Elegy by Firelight,</span></i> Longleaf
Press, 2006; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Greatest Hits: 1972-2002,</span></i>
Pudding House Press, 2003; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Ghost Wrestling,
1997; Infant Bonds of Joy, 1990,</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Shadow Shadow, </span></i>1986<i><span style='font-style:italic'>,</span></i>
all with David R. Godine;<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The Vermont
Suicides, 1978; Ethan Benjamin Boldt, 1975,</span></i> with Alfred A. Knopf<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>, and reissued in 1987, with an introduction by Mark
Jarman, Story Line Press, </span></i>and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>What
are Birds Worth, 1975, The Cummington Press. </span></i>His poems have appeared
in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>APR</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The New Yorker, Poetry, The </span></i></span></font><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Paris</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>
Review, The </span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>New</span></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Republic</span></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>,</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Ploughshares</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Prague Revue</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Kenyon Review, </span></i>among many others. He
has co-edited six poetry anthologies, including<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
Manthology: Poems on the Male </span></i>Experience, University of Iowa Press
2006; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>New American Poets,</span></i> 2005; <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Poets of the New Century</span></i>, 2001; <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>New American Poets of the ‘90s, 1991, </span></i>all
with David R. Godine. He edited <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Ghost
Writing</span></i>, a short story collection, Invisible Cities Press, 2001, and
co-edited <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Open Book: Essays from the Postgraduate
Writers’Conference, </span></i>Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. </span></i>Poetry Consultant for David R. Godine,
1987-1994, he is General Editor of the Invisible Cities Press Poetry Series,
and Contributing Editor for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Interpoezia</span></i>,
an international online and print journal presenting poems in Russian and
English. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Louisville Review </span></i>Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the
Arts Award, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Literature. He has
lectured, taught and read at writers’ conferences, poetry festivals, and
universities nationally and internationally. He founded and teaches in
the MFA in Writing and the Postgraduate Summer Writers’ Conference at Vermont
College of the Union Institute and University.<br>
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Kate Fetherston’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Hunger</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>
</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Mountain</span></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>, Artful Dodge, </span></i>and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Drexel Online Journal.</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Third</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>
</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Coast</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Crying Sky</span></i>. Essays on translation
have appeared in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poetry Miscellany</span></i>
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Interpoezia.</span></i> She
co-edited (with Craig Crist-Evans and Roger Weingarten) <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience</span></i>
published by the University of Iowa Press in 2006. She’s co-editor
(with Roger Weingarten) of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Open Book: Essays
from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writer’s Conference, </span></i>forthcoming
from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The recipient of a Vermont Arts
Council grant, Kate has an MFA from Vermont College, and is currently at work
on her first book of poems. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont. <br>
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This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from <br>
The James Irvine Foundation</span></font></p>
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<div>Maurya Simon</div>
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<div>Professor </div>
<div>Department of Creative Writing</div>
<div>University of California Riverside</div>
<div>900 University Avenue</div>
<div>Riverside, CA 92521-0318</div>
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<div>TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)</div>
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<div>FAX: (951) 827-3619 </div>
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