[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Poetry Reading in Riverside: Charles Harper Webb and Tony Barnstone

[Amanda J Labagnara]

FYI

 

 

 

Poets Charles Harper Webb and Tony Barnstone will be reading in Riverside on
Wednesday, November 15, at 7 p.m.  The reading will take place at the
Universalist Unitarian Church, 3657 Lemon St. in downtown Riverside (next to
the Riverside Public Library).  ! The event is supported by the Riverside
School for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and the Associated Students of
Riverside City College.*  For those who are interested, a book signing will
follow the reading.  

 

Charles Harper Webb's poems have appeared in Paris Review, American Poetry
Review, the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize series, and elsewhere.
Among his six collections of poetry, Reading the Water won the 1997 Samuel
French Morse Poetry Prize and the 1998 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Liver
won the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize.  Webb's most recent collection, Amplified
Dog, won the Benjamin Saltman Prize.  His o! ther prizes include the Academy
of American Poets prize, Whiting Writer's Award, and a fellowship from the
Guggenheim Foundation. A professional rock singer/guitarist for 15 years,
Charles Webb is currently professor of English at California State
University, Long Beach, as well as a licensed psychotherapist, specializing
in work with c! reative artists.

Tony Barnstone's poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have
appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from American Poetry
Review to Agni.  His books include
<http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/SADJAZZ.html> Sad Jazz: Sonnets and
<http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/IMPURE.HTM> Impure: Poems.  Among his
translations are The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, Out of the Howling
Storm: The New Chinese Poetry, and The Art of Writing: Teachings of the
Chinese Masters. <http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/IMPURE.HTM>   He has !
won fellowships and awards from the California Arts Council, the Pushcart
Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the National Poetry Competition
(Chester H. Jones Foundation), and the Poetry Society of America.  Tony
Barnstone is professor of English
<http://web.whittier.edu/academic/english/index.htm>  at Whittier College.

For more information, the official number to call is 951-328-3636.  Of
course, I'm happy to answer any questions, too; feel free to send me an
e-mail at kristine_anderson at earthlink.net (or kristine.anderson at rcc.edu) or
call me at 951-222-8219 (on campus).

Please share this information with anyone who may be interested.  Thanks!  I
hope to see you there!

Kris Anderson

kristine_anderson at earthlink.net OR

kristine.anderson at rcc.edu

 

*This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from The James Irvine Foundation, and by ASRCC and the Riverside
School for the Arts.
 
 
 
 
 

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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