Liz
Irmiter
Jo Pitkin
Matt
Schwartz
Wednesday,
March 15th, 2006
7:30 pm
Jean-Jacques'
Culinary Creations
468 Bedford Road, Pleasantville
welcomes a reading of the
Slapering
Hol Press Poetry Series
of
The Hudson Valley Writers' Center
featuring
LIZ IRMITER
Liz
Irmiter received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Animus, innerWeather, Poetry
Motel, Lumina and The Greensboro Review. She has read her work
at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Ear Inn, the Manu in Exile poetry series
and helped found the Yorkville Poetry Reading series. She lives in New
York City.
JO PITKIN
Jo Pitkin received a B.A. in creative writing from Kirkland College in Clinton, New York, and an M.F.A. in poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her poems have been published in Dark Horse, Lyra, Ironwood, Quarterly West, Nimrod, and other magazines. She won Kirkland College's Eighth Annual Watrous Poetry Prize, the First Annual Hudson Valley Poetry Contest, and Lyra magazine’s Fourth Annual Poetry Prize. For more than twenty years, Jo has worked full-time as a freelance educational writer for major textbook publishers. She currently lives in the Hudson River Valley in a 175-year-old house that was once a public school.
MATT SCHWARTZ
Matt Schwartz graduated with an MFA in Poetry from UC Irvine in 2003, where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize. He received the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship from the International Institute of Modern Letters for 2003-2004. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Sycamore Review.
Introductions by Margo Stever
$7 admission includes coffee and a pastry
FOR DIRECTIONS, CALL JEAN-JACQUES' AT 914-747-8191