Launched
Celebrate the first full-length books of three area poets.
Sherry
Fairchok’s Palace of Ashes was published by CavanKerry Press
in late 2002. An earlier chapbook, A Stone That Burns, won The
Ledge 1999 Chapbook Award. Both books reveal her roots in the Scranton,
PA area where four generations worked in the coal mines. Marie Howe says,
“Each poem is a world, a story so in love with the details—the sound of
human voices, the taste of food, the look of dusty lilacs—that I am taken
in utterly. I trust these poems too; I feel moved and changed by their
hard-won transformations.”
Joy
Katz’s Fabulae was published by Southern Illinois University
Press in 2002. She is a senior editor at Pleiades, and co-editor
of the forthcoming anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems.
New work appears, or will soon, in The Best American Poetry, McSweeney’s,
Verse, The Hat, and Ms.. Carl Phillips describes her poems
as “shot through with grace, intellect, and control.” She teaches poetry
at The New School.
Ann
Lauinger’s Persuasions of Fall won the first annual Agha Shahid
Ali Prize in Poetry from University of Utah Press which published it this
year. “What a wonderful, joyous, tender, and (sometimes) funny book (it)
is,” says Tom Lux. “It’s filled with great care and attention to and for
the world and its creatures: us.” Locals will recognize the Rockefeller
Preserve, the Arcadian Shopping Center and other sites. She teaches literature
at Sarah Lawrence College.
The three poets live in Mount Vernon, Brooklyn, and Ossining respectively.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.