[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Celebrate National Poetry Month

[Amanda J Labagnara]

Celebrate National Poetry Month




             Poetry Reading at Palm Springs Public Library 
                      300 S. Sunrise Way, (760) 322-7323

Saturday April 14, 2007
1:30-3:30pm 
Featuring Roger Weingarten & Kate Fetherston
 

 
Roger Weingarten is the author of ten collections of poetry including
Premature Elegy by Firelight, Longleaf Press, 2006; Greatest Hits:
1972-2002, Pudding House Press, 2003; Ghost Wrestling, 1997; Infant Bonds of
Joy, 1990, and Shadow Shadow, 1986, all with David R. Godine; The Vermont
Suicides, 1978; Ethan Benjamin Boldt, 1975, with Alfred A. Knopf, and
reissued in 1987, with an introduction by Mark Jarman, Story Line Press,
and What are Birds Worth, 1975, The Cummington Press. His poems have
appeared in APR, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic,
Ploughshares, The Prague Revue, and The Kenyon Review, among many others. He
has co-edited six poetry anthologies, including Manthology: Poems on the
Male Experience, University of Iowa Press 2006; New American Poets, 2005;
Poets of the New Century, 2001; New American Poets of the '90s, 1991, all
with David R. Godine.  He edited Ghost Writing, a short story collection,
Invisible Cities Press, 2001, and co-edited Open Book: Essays from the
Postgraduate Writers'Conference, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. Poetry
Consultant for David R. Godine, 1987-1994, he is General Editor of the
Invisible Cities Press Poetry Series, and Contributing Editor for
Interpoezia, an international online and print journal presenting poems in
Russian and English. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Louisville
Review Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Ingram
Merrill Foundation Award in Literature. He has lectured, taught and read at
writers' conferences, poetry festivals, and universities nationally and
internationally.  He founded and teaches in the MFA in Writing and the
Postgraduate Summer Writers' Conference at Vermont College of the Union
Institute and University.
 
 
 
Kate Fetherston's poems have appeared in numerous journals including Hunger
Mountain, Artful Dodge, and Drexel Online Journal., Third Coast and Crying
Sky.  Essays on translation have appeared in Poetry Miscellany and
Interpoezia.  She co-edited (with Craig Crist-Evans and Roger Weingarten)
Manthology:  Poems on the Male Experience published by the University of
Iowa Press in 2006.  She's co-editor (with Roger Weingarten) of Open Book:
Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writer's Conference,
forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  The recipient of a Vermont
Arts Council grant, Kate has an MFA from Vermont College, and is currently
at work on her first book of poems.   She lives in Montpelier, Vermont. 
 
 

 
 
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from 
The James Irvine Foundation

 
 
 


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Maurya Simon

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

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

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