The Center for Book Arts

The Center for Book Arts

Join us for a poetry reading featuring Chase Twichell and Leslie Harrison, organized by Matthew Thorburn.

Leslie Harrison is the author of Displacement (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), winner of the 2008 Breadloaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize, selected by Eavan Boland. Currently a production manager for a weekl...y newspaper, she has spent more than a decade as a photojournalist whose prize-winning work has appeared in People and Sports Illustrated, among other publications. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Irvine, she lives in Sandisfield, Massachusetts.

Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Dog Language (Copper Canyon, 2005). She is also the co-translator, with Tony Stewart, of The Lover of God (poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Copper Canyon), and co-editor, with Robin Behn, of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (HarperCollins). Twichell's work has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Artists' Foundation. She's the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Alice Fay Dicastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Hugh Ogden Poetry Prize from Trinity College. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. She lives in the Adirondacks with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.

Guests will receive a limited edition letterpress printed broadside.
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