The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with
| Emily Fragos | |
| Hermine Meinhard | |
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| Thursday, July 7, 2005, 7:30 pm | |
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| First Time Hits Emily Fragos and Hermine Meinhard, both of NYC, have stand-outs in the 2004 crop of first poetry books.
Meinhard’s Bright Turquoise Umbrella (Tupelo Press) was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2005 Norma Farber First Book Award. She was a finalist for the PSA’s 2004 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, the 1993 winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Since 2000 she has been poetry editor of the literary journal 3rd bed. Brooks Haxton comments: “Amazed and hurt, joking in fear, loving and experienced, all at once, she is one of those few artists (Kafka and Fra Angelico come to mind) whose simplicity and skill deliver the refreshment of a deeper tenderness toward being.” All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale. | |
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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 by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals. |
In
her Boston Review piece on Fragos’s Little Savage (Grove Press),
Marie Ponsot says, “Her poems take us by surprise….We are enlarged by her resonant
verbal imagination.” Kathleen Rooney says, “The poems … are so smooth and radiant
with thought that one has the sense that they were tumbled around in the mind
of the poet until completely polished.” Fragos’s work has appeared in dozens of
publications including The Best American Poetry 1998, and she received
the David Craig Austin Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of an anthology of
cat poems, The Great Cat (Random House, 2005).