[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Poem.X: Buckley & Ronk, Oct 6th

[Amanda J Labagnara]

>October Poetry Fest at POEM.X with Christopher Buckley and Martha Ronk
>
>Poem.X continues its fall season with readings by Christopher Buckley and 
>Martha Ronk on Friday, October 6th at 8:00 p.m.  Poem.X events, curated 
>and hosted by poets Jeanette Clough and Jim Natal, are held at Barnes & 
>Noble Santa Monica 2nd floor community room, 1201 3rd Street Promenade (at 
>Wilshire), 310/260-9110.  Admission is free.  Park in Santa Monica 
>structures; $3 flat fee after 6:00.
>
>Buckley's most recent book of poetry is And the Sea, from Sheep Meadow 
>Press.  A new book of nonfiction, Sleep Walk, is out from Eastern 
>Washington University Press.  Buckley, a major presence in promoting 
>California poetry, has edited The Geography of Home:  California's Poetry 
>of Place (1999);  How Much Earth:  The Fresno Poets (2001); The Poetry of 
>Philip Levine:  Stranger to Nothing (1991), and A Condition of the 
>Spirit:  The Life and Work of Larry Levis (2004).  Over the years his own 
>poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals.  He has received a 
>Fullbright Award, four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society 
>of America, and is the recipient of two NEA grants.  He teaches creative 
>writing at UC Riverside.
>
>Why/Why Not (UC Press) is a poetic question posed by Martha Ronk.  Another 
>recent publication, In the Landscape of Having to Repeat (Omidawn, 2004), 
>won the Pen USA 2005 award in poetry.  With Paul Vangelisti, she edited 
>Place as Purpose:  Poetry from the Western States.  Her fiction appears in 
>the Chicago Review, Harvard Review, Fence, and Denver Quarterly.  She 
>received the Lynda Hull Poetry Award, a MacArthur summer research grant, 
>was an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi, and edits 
>for Littoral Books. Ronk has a Ph.D from Yale and teaches at Occidental 
>College.
>
>Poem.X continues on November 10th with readings by Ralph Angel and Barbara 
>Maloutis, and December 8th with Richard Garcia and Susan Rich.
>
>For further information contact:
>Jim Natal: 310/821-3906;  jimnatal at comcast.net, or
>Jeanette Clough:  Jclough at getty.edu
>
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Maurya Simon

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