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- A Conversation with Peter O'Le...
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
Wednesday, November 4 at 8:00pm - Michael and Matthew Dickman re...
Smith College, Stoddard Hall Audito...
Tuesday, November 3 at 7:30pm - Heather McHugh reading
Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
Monday, November 2 at 7:00pm - W.S. Merwin at the Hammer Museum
Hammer Museum
Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm - Sherwin Bitsui reads at the In...
IAIA Campus Auditorium, The Institu...
Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm - Sherwin Bitsui reading
Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe...
Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00pm - Patrick Donnelly and Jason Roush
Honan Allston Public Library, 300 N...
Monday, October 26 at 6:30pm - Valzhyna Mort at Chippewa Vall...
upstairs at Unitarian Universalist ...
Friday, October 23 at 7:30pm - Valzhyna Mort at Frederick Com...
JBK Theater, Frederick Community Co...
Thursday, October 15 at 11:00am - Eleanor Rand Wilner at Fontbon...
Fontbonne University
Wednesday, October 14 at 4:00pm
Copper Canyon Press This weekend, C.D. Wright reads in three states in four days: Columbia University (11/12), University of Florida (11/14), and Louisiana State. We found this video of her reading at last year's Dodge Poetry Festival from her Griffin Award-winning "Rising, Falling, Hovering"—just released in paperback, http://bit.ly/oiOOQ.
Source: www.youtube.com
C.D. Wright reads "Like a Prisoner of Soft Words" "Like the Ghost of a Carrier Pigeon" and "Petition for Replenishment."
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Copper Canyon Press Congratulations to Heather McHugh, whose "Upgraded to Serious" has just been named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009.
Source: www.publishersweekly.com
It's almost Thanksgiving, which is the beginning of the end of another year, and for us at PW that means our annual best books list. From more than 50,000 volumes, we valiantly set out to choose 100.
Copper Canyon Press Arthur Sze's October 6 reading at the Seattle Public Library is now posted as a podcast on their website.
Source: www.spl.org
Arthur Sze read from "The Ginkgo Light," his latest poetry collection, on Oct. 6, 2009 at The Seattle Public Library.
Copper Canyon Press Sad news: Copper Canyon Press' first president of the board of directors, Joseph Wheeler, passed away on Monday. The founding executive director of Centrum, Joe was instrumental in bringing Copper Canyon Press to Port Townsend and was an inspiring figure in the community. He will be deeply missed.
Copper Canyon Press Matthew Dickman will read on Thursday and Valzhyna Mort on Friday at Bend, OR's "Nature of Words" festival, which kicks off today and runs through Sunday.
Source: www.thenatureofwords.org
The mission of The Nature of Words is to foster an appreciation of the literary arts and humanities in the High Desert region of the Northwest through community interaction with acclaimed authors, and through creative writing programs for high school and college-age students in the region.
Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon author websites are now accessible via the Copper Canyon Press website. Come check it out to find out more about your favorite poet or translator.
Copper Canyon Press Shirley Kaufman's daughter, Deborah Kaufman, has directed a short film of Shirley's long poem "Ezekiel's Wheels," and we found the trailer here:
Source: www.sfjff.org
Renowned American-born, Jerusalem-based poet Shirley Kaufman gives an electrifying reading of her new work, a contemplation of longing and the nature of true seeing. The elegiac poem (“wheels and their turnings/can the mind provide/what the eye will/never”) is inspired by Kaufman's struggle with los...
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"Gasp-inducingly great" is
not a phrase you read everyday. Check out this f- and s-bomb-dropping
rave of Ed Skoog's debut, "Mister Skylight."
Source: corduroybooks.wordpress.com
Hot Damn is Ed Skoog a master. I don’t know if or where you may’ve seen his stuff before—I can’t remember where I first saw him—but you have no excuse now not to see and know his stuff: his debut, Mister Skylight, came out recently from Copper Canyon, and it’s as gasp-inducingly great a book of poet...
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Heather McHugh will be reading at Elliott Bay Book Co. in Seattle on November 2, 2009. The reading begins at 7 pm. She will read from her newest collection, Upgraded to Serious, and older work. More information at http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/nov
Copper Canyon Press
Congratulations
to Matthew Dickman, who has just won an Oregon Book Award, the
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, for his "All-American Poem."
Source: www.literary-arts.org
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY Judge: Matthea Harvey WINNER Matthew Dickman of Portland, All-American Poem (American Poetry Review)
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From the Collected Works website:
Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan).
He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Wr...iting Program. He is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency and more recently, a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award.
Sherwin has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is the author of Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press 2003). Flood Song will be released in October from Copper Canyon Press.
More information at http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/e
Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan).
He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Wr...iting Program. He is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency and more recently, a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award.
Sherwin has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is the author of Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press 2003). Flood Song will be released in October from Copper Canyon Press.
More information at http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/e
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, October 27th
Location:Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM
