[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Poem.X: Chang & Yenser 4/21

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:06 PM
To: Amanda Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: Poem.X: Chang & Yenser 4/21

Dear Amanda,

Please forward this announcement to everyone.  Thanks,  Maurya


>April, National Poetry Month, Brings Victoria Chang and Stephen Yenser to 
>POEM.X
>
>Poets Victoria Chang and Stephen Yenser will read at Poem.X on Friday, 
>April 21, 2006 at 8 P.M.  Poem.X events, curated and hosted by poets 
>Jeanette Clough and Jim Natal, are held at Barnes & Noble Santa Monica, 
>1201 Third Street Promenade (at Wilshire), (310) 260-9110. Admission is
free.
>
>Chang's book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Open Competition 
>(Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). She is the editor of an 
>anthology: Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of 
>Illinois Press, 2004). Her poems have been published in or are forthcoming 
>in Best American Poetry 2005, The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, 
>Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, and others. 
>She resides in Southern California and is completing a Ph.D. in USC's 
>literature and creative writing program, as well as working as a 
>researcher at Stanford.
>
>Yenser's Blue Guide has just been published by the University of Chicago 
>Press. The Fire in All Things, his previous volume of poems, received the 
>Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.  His other 
>recognitions include a Discovery/The Nation Poetry Award, the Bernard F. 
>Connors Prize from The Paris Review, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, a 
>Pushcart Prize, two Fulbright Fellowships, and two appearances in The Best 
>American Poetry series. His poems have been published in Poetry, The New 
>Yorker, and the Paris Review among many other significant journals. Yenser 
>is the author of three critical books: Circle to Circle:  The Poetry of 
>Robert Lowell; The Consuming Myth:  The Work of James Merrill; and A 
>Boundless Field:  American Poetry at Large. He is also co-editor of James 
>Merrill's collected work. The four volumes published so far are the 
>Collected Poems, the Collected Novels and Plays, the Collected Prose, and 
>The Changing Light at Sandover; the Selected Letters are underway). He is 
>professor of English and director of creative writing at UCLA, where he 
>has received the Harvey L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching.
>
>The Poem.X series continues on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 8 P.M. with 
>readings by David Oliveira and Carol Potter.
>
>
>For further information, contact:
>Jim Natal at: (310) 821-3906 / jimnatal at comcast.net
>or Jeanette Clough:  JClough at getty.edu

Maurya Simon

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Department of Creative Writing
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