[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Poem.X: Barnstone & Silberg, Feb.24

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:08 PM
To: Amanda Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: Poem.X: Barnstone & Silberg, Feb.24


Dear Amanda,
Please forward this announcement to everyone.  Thanks, Maurya


>POEM.X Features Multi-Faceted Poets Tony Barnstone and Richard Silberg 
>in
>February
>
>Poets, editors, and translators Tony Barnstone and Richard Silberg will
>read at Poem.X on Friday, February 24, 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.
>
>Barnstone is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at
>Whittier College, and has published his poetry, fiction, essays, and 
>translations in dozens of major journals. Among his recent poetry 
>collections are Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005) and
Impure: 
>Poems by Tony Barnstone. Barnstone also has published The Anchor Book
of 
>Chinese Poetry; Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry;
Laughing 
>Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei; The Art of Writing: Teachings
of 
>the Chinese Masters; and textbooks on the literatures of Asia, Africa, 
>Latin America and the Middle East. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and

>raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in Greece, 
>Spain, Kenya, and China before taking his Masters in English and
Creative 
>Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at UC Berkeley.
>
>Silberg is Associate Editor of Poetry Flash: A Poetry Review and 
>Literary
>Calendar for the West, and host the weekly Berkeley reading series
Poetry 
>Flash at Cody's Books. His poems have appeared in VOLT, Parthenon West 
>Review, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, and The Addison
Street 
>Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk. His poetry books include the new 
>collection Deconstruction of the Blues, as well as Doubleness, and 
>Translucent Gears. He's also the author of Reading the Sphere: A
Geography 
>of Contemporary American Poetry, a collection of essays from Poetry
Flash, 
>and co-translator of a new collection of the Korean poet Ko Un's work,
The 
>Three-Way Tavern to be published by the University of California Press
in 
>April 2006. Silberg teaches Writing and Appreciating Contemporary
Poetry 
>for UC Berkeley Extension.
>
>The Poem.X series continues on Friday, March 17, 2006 at 8 P.M. with
>readings by Carol V. Davis, John Fitzgerald, and Dian Sousa.
>
>
>For further information, contact:
>Jim Natal at: (310) 821-3906 / jimnatal at comcast.net
>or Jeanette Clough:  JClough at getty.edu

Maurya Simon

Professor
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
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