A POETRY FEAST
Several poets are gathering in the Rivertowns for a “moveable feast” to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and we are fortunate to have a pre-feast reading at the HVWC. The following have definitely committed to this event, and others may join them.
CARL DENNIS won a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2002 for his eighth poetry collection, Practical Gods (Penguin). His most recent book is New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 (Penguin, 2004). Other awards include the Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry in 2000, several NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He teaches at SUNY Buffalo and lives in Buffalo.
MARIANNE BORUCH’s recent books include her fifth collection, Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004) and a second book of essays on poetry, In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005). She teaches in the MFA programs at Purdue and is currently a Guggenheim fellow. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.
LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and of Small Gods of Grief (both from BOA Editions). The latter won the Isabella Gardner Prize in 2001. Last fall Four Way Books published her fourth anthology, Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. Her third poetry collection, New Hunger, will be published by Ausable Press in March of 2007.
KURT BROWN is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, including Return of the Prodigals and More Things in Heaven and Earth (both Four Way Books) and Fables from the Ark (CustomWords Press), and he has edited several anthologies, one with Bosselaar. He and Bosselaar, a married couple, live in New York City and both teach at Sarah Lawrence College.
CATHERINE BARNETT's collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in 2004 by Alice James Books. She's won a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, an Outstanding Service award for her teaching at New York University, and a Whiting Writers' Award. As Poet-in-Residence at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, she teaches writing to young mothers in New York City's shelter system.
Poet Nancy Krim, a Warren Wilson alumna and member of the HVWC Board of Directors, will introduce the readers.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members)
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.