Brooks
Haxton has published five poetry collections including Uproar:
Antiphonies to Psalms and Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero, two
long narrative poems, and translations of such geniuses as the Greek philosopher
Heraclitus and the French poet Victor Hugo. He teaches writing at Syracuse
University and Warren Wilson College and has won fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram
Merrill Foundation and others.
Elaine Sexton is the author of the collection, Sleuth, and has been published widely in literary journals including Poetry and American Poetry Review. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the founding publisher of chapbookfinder.com, a site dedicated to making it easier to find and buy chapbooks.
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)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants 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 the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.