Just a few tidbits of news… November 3, 2009
Posted by catiporter in Antioch MFA, Books, Poetry.trackback
I’ll be reading in Los Angeles on November 17th at 6 pm as part of the Literary Uprising series, an event co-sponsored by Antioch University and the lit journal Two Hawks Quarterly. The readings occur quarterly, and each features one BA student (Loretta Williams, fiction) and one MFA student (myself, the only poet of the night), nominated by the faculty, as well as one faculty reader (Leonard Chang). I’ll post the flyer for it in the next few days.
Also, I am really excited that the lovely and talented (and soon-to-be Mama again, her third, after a fifteen year break –!) poet and novelist Gayle Brandeis is using an excerpt from one of my poems in her latest book, Delta Girls. The poem excerpted is a double abecedarian. So if you haven’t checked out Gayle’s work, you should. She is *amazing*.
And finally, I am very very VERY excited (did I mention that I am excited?) that I’m going to be listening to Matthea Harvey read tomorrow night at the Claremont Public Library. I’ve quoted several of her poems in my paper on the Gurlesque, so can I *not* go? I have to. No question.
Here is the information for anyone else who is interested:
NEWS RELEASE
September 23, 2009 For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Susan Hampson
Claremont Graduate University
(909) 621-8612
2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner
at Claremont Public Library
Matthea Harvey, 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, will read from her award winning work, Modern Life, at the Claremont Public Library on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Claremont Graduate University and the Friends of the Claremont Library, the reading is free and open to everyone.
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2008, Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake is forthcoming from Tin House Books. She is a contributing editor to jubilat, BOMB and Meatpaper. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.
If you’re in the area, you really don’t want to miss this event! If you do go, be sure to find me and say hello.
OMG! I would love to hear Matthea Harvey read, she is AMAZING!
It’s such an honor to be able to include your brilliant work in my book! :)
xoxo
gayle
Jessie — I’ll be sure to give a full report!
Gayle — The honor is all mine! :-)