[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Red Hen Press and the Ruskin Art Clubs presents

[Amanda J Labagnara]

December 10, 2006 - 2pm
Poetry at the Ruskin
Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, is proud
to announce Southern California's
acclaimed reading series, Poetry at the Ruskin. Featuring local and
international poets, Poetry at the Ruskin will host
the very best of today's artists.
Kate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Elena Karina Byrne, past
Regional Director of the Poetry
Society of America and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the Los Angeles
Times Festival of Books, are your hosts.
Please join them for delightful readings by Geri Digiorno and CD Wright,
followed by a reception with complimentary
refreshments. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles' oldest
cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse
was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997.
Red Hen Press Reading Series
Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble
emotions.
-John Ruskin
The Ruskin Art Club
800 S. Plymouth Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
310.669.2369 or 818.831.0649
Admission: General $10
Students & Seniors $5
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.
Ruskin Art Club
4111EV
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from The James
Irvine Foundation. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,
the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
and the National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press.
CD Wright has published nine collections of poetry, most recently the
booklength
poem Deepstep Come Shining. She has won various poetry awards including
being
named 1994 State Poet of Rhode Island, Fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation
and Bunting Institute, and two awards from the National Endowment of the
Arts. Her collection String Light, won the 1992 Poetry Center Book Award
given by
San Francisco University. Wright's poetry and essays have appeared in
multiple
magazines and she has served as a visiting professor at the University of
Iowa's Writers
Workshop.
Geri Digiorno is Poet Laureate of Sonoma County 2006-2007 and founder and
director of
The Petaluma Poetry Walk. She is author of White Lipstick (Red Hen Press,
2005). Geri's
publishing credits include Paterson Literary Review, Carbuncle, 33 Poetry
Review, Cyanosis,
North Coast Review, Tomcat, Tight, Bogg, Women's Voices, Sonoma Mandala, The
Noe Valley Voice
and The Haight Ashbury Review. In addition, she is a painter and teaches
workshops in Sonoma
County and Paterson, New Jersey. A chapbook of her poems, I'm Tap Dancing,
was published
by Norton Coker Press.

Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 

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