BAKELESS PRIZE WINNERS
We
begin National Poetry Month with a reading by “our own” David Tucker of
South Orange, New Jersey, the winner of our Slapering
Hol Press (SHP) chapbook competition in 2003. He has gone on to win the Bakeless
Prize at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference this past year, and now, two days before
the official publication date, he will read from the new book, Late for Work
(Houghton-Mifflin), which was selected by Philip Levine.
Tucker isn’t just doing well in poetry. The New Jersey Star Ledger, where he is on the editorial team, just won a 2005 Pulitzer Prize, and the life of that newsroom is a common topic of his poetry. (His SHP chapbook was called Days When Nothing Happens.)
Also
reading will be the 2004 Bakeless winner, Ron Slate of Milton, Massachusetts.
Slate’s winning work is titled The Incentive of the Maggot (Houghton-Mifflin,
2005) and was selected by Robert Pinsky. Slate is the former VP of a Fortune 500-size
company and now the COO of a biotechnology start-up, but poetry has almost always
been part of his life. In 1973 he earned a master’s in creative writing from Stanford
University and founded The Chowder Review, a magazine of poetry and commentary.
This reading made possible by the Sanger Stewart Memorial Fund.
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 by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.