Kate Gale at LMU Spring Poetry Series
Date: 2012-02-23Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Loyola Marymount University
University Hall #1857, 1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Description:
Featured readers:
Dr. Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of The Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers Forum, LA. She teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation and Poetry Society of America. She is author of five books of poetry (her most recent, Mating Season, Tupelo Press); a novel, Lake of Fire; and six librettos, including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her current projects include a co-written non-fiction book, entitled Tameka vs. Susie Q; a memoir, Flight of the Ugly Duckling; two new poetry collections; and a co-written libretto, Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.
James Cushing was Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo from 2008-2010. Formerly the director of the Al’s Bar Poetry Series and host of a live poetry program on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. Cushing has published poetry and criticism in Antioch Review, Barnwood, Denver Quarterly, as well as dozens of other journals since 1979. Cahuenga Press has published three previous collections: You and the Night and the Music (1991), The Length of an Afternoon (1999) and Undercurrent Blues (2005). W.S. Merwin has praised his poetry’s “evident intelligence, and depth and maturity,” while Amy Gerstler has noted that “Cushing infuses his shifting, surreal vision with undercurrents of deep feeling.” Cushing teaches literature and creative writing at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he also hosts a weekly jazz program on KCPR-FM, the college radio station.
Parking and Directions:
The LMU Extension Poetry Series takes place on select Thursday nights at 8pm in Room #1857 of University Hall at 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Park free in P2-P3 and turn left as you enter the underground parking area. Take the middle set of elevators to G level (elevator room #2). As soon as you exit the elevator take an immediate right through the silver doors and curl around behind the elevators, look for posted signage (if you go into the Atrium, you have gone too far).
Lynnell Edwards at the AWP Conference in Chicago
Date: 2012-03-01Time: 12:00 am
Location: Honoré Ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton, Lobby Level
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Description:
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference Celebrates Thirty-Three Years
Lynnell Edwards will be reading with Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Lisa Williams, and Holly Goddard Jones to celebrate the longest-running literary festival of women in the nation. It has featured nearly 300 writers in the decades since, from Alice Walker to Joyce Carol Oates and three U.S. poet laureates. Celebrating this longevity are recent conference alumna with Kentucky ties, whose work demonstrates the profound impact such an event can have on a region’s literary history.
Lynnell Edwards at the AWP Conference in Chicago
Date: 2012-03-01Time: 3:00 am
Location: Astoria at the Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Description:
Sharing Our Common Wealth: How Kentucky Became a Literary Arts Capital of Mid-America
Lynnell Edwards (with Julie Kuzneski Wrinn, Neil Chethik, Bianca Spriggs and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer) will discuss how two institutions—the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, founded in 1979, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, founded in 1992—work together to build audiences, share resources, and support newer literary groups such as the Affrilachian Poets, InKy Reading Series, Gypsy Poetry Slam, Holler Poets Series, and Accents Publishing.
Camille Dungy at the AWP Conference in Chicago
Date: 2012-03-03Time: 9:00 am
Location: State Ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Description:
A Poetry Congeries Reading
Camille Dungy, David St. John, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Brian Turner and Anna Journey offer a reading at the AWP Writers Conference, showcasing one aspect of Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, a cultural site that emerged in September of 2010 and set the bar for what an online cultural site can aspire to. A Poetry Congeries, a monthly feature that includes an interview, is a by-solicitation-only assemblage that includes new work from hundreds of poets.
Camille Dungy at the AWP Conference in Chicago
Date: 2012-03-03Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Wiliford C. at the Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago , IL 60605
Description:
The Vampire Poets: Collaborating with the Dead
Camille Dungy, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Dean Rader and Simone Muench are vampire poets who celebrate, seek guidance, and cull inspiration from the dead. In centos, persona poems, and erasures, they recycle, reconfigure, and pay homage to diverse traditions, resulting in new textual conversations. Camille Dungy will discuss her various projects at the AWP Writers Conference, and will read brief excerpts from her work.
Red Hen at Boston Court
Date: 2012-03-06Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N Mentor Ave
Pasadena, CA 91106
Description:
Boston Court Performing Arts Center strives to challenge the audiences of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley with diverse programs in an intimate setting. Please join Red Hen Press on March 6 for an evening with award-winning writers B.H. Fairchild, Nikky Finney, Willis Barnstone, and Dewitt Henry, moderated by Tony Barnstone. For more information, please contact Red Hen Press at publicity@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet whose most recent book, Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W.W. Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Art of the Lathe (Alice James Books, 1998), which received the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, brought Fairchild's work to national prominence. His work has won significant awards including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the California Book Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.
Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff's Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky, Finney authored Heartwood (1997) edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co- founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney's fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split (Triquarterly, 2011) was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.
Willis Barnstone has received four Pulitzer nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, the W. H. Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Midland Authors Award. He has translated Sappho, Borges, Machado, Neruda, Mao Zedong, St. John of the Cross, Rilke, and many others, as well as the Gnostic Bible and the Restored New Testament. Formerly the O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is now Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He divides his time between Bloomington, Indiana, and Oakland, California. His latest collection of poems, Stickball on 88th Street, was published by Red Hen in 2011.
DeWitt Henry, the founder and longtime editor of Ploughshares, is the author of the memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River Press, 2011). He is also the author of Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, And Meditations (Red Hen Press, 2008) and the novel, The Marriage Of Anna Maye Potts (University of Tennessee, 2001), winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. Henry has edited a number of highly praised anthologies including The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the 80s (Pushcart Press, 1984), winner of Third Annual Editors Book Award. A professor at Emerson College, Henry graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and earned an M.A. in English from Harvard University, as well as a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1971.
Moderator:
Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won numerous fellowships and poetry awards, including the Pushcart Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, and the Cecil Hemley Award. In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for his manuscript The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2007). He won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008 for Tongue of War (forthcoming, BKMK Press) and won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, in Strokestown, Ireland, in 2008.
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 683-6883
Red Hen Press at Cornelia Street Café in New York City
Date: 2012-03-08Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
Description:
Red Hen Press, in association with the Cornelia Street Café, is pleased to invite you to spend an evening with award-winning writers Michael Quadland, Janice Eidus, and Amelia Kahaney. For more information on this reading, please contact publicity@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
Michael Quadland graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University and a PhD in psychology from New York University. In addition to his private psychotherapy practice, Quadland taught human sexuality at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and consulted with many organizations about AIDS prevention and the emotional-psychological aspects of the disease. He has published many articles in professional journals on AIDS and sexuality. He left AIDS work in 1995, reduced the size of his psychotherapy practice, and turned to writing fiction. His first novel, That Was Then, was published in 2007, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His new novel Offspring was released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
Janice Eidus has won two O. Henry Prizes, the Independent Publishers Award in Religion for her novel, The War Of The Rosens, and numerous other awards for her writing. Her other books include The Celibacy Club, Vito Loves Geraldine, Urban Bliss, and Faithful Rebecca. Her work also appears in such anthologies as The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories; Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex; and Desire: Women Write About Wanting, and in leading newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Jewish Currents, Tikkun, and The Forward. She lives in New York City and Mexico with her husband and daughter.
Amelia Kahaney's short stories have appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, One Story, Crazyhorse, and other publications. She has recently ghostwritten three bestselling young adult novels, but her next book will have her name on its cover. She lives in Brooklyn
Bart Edelman at Stories Books & Cafe
Date: 2012-03-09Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Stories Books & Cafe
1716 West Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Description:
"Featherless Reading Series"
Please join Bart Edelman for a reading and signing with Ryan Shoemaker and Linda Lay at Stories Books & Cafe.
For more information, please visit www.storiesla.com.
Red Hen Press at KGB Bar in New York City
Date: 2012-03-09Time: 7:00 pm
Location: KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
Description:
Since its opening in 1993, KGB Bar has become something of a New York literary institution. Please join Red Hen Press for an evening of poetry and conversation at the renowned bar, featuring award-winning writers Brendan Constantine, Lynnell Edwards, and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. For more information on this reading, please contact publicity@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
Brendan Constantine was born in 1967, the second child of two working actors. An ardent supporter of Southern California?s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets, he has served as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges for the last seventeen years. His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Cortland Review, RUNES, and LA Times Bestseller The Underground Guide to Los Angeles. He released his first collection, Letters to Guns, in 2009 (Red Hen Press). He is currently poet-in-residence at the Windward School in West Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University Extension. He is also currently working with The Alzheimer?s Poetry Project, bringing poetry workshops to Alzheimer?s patients throughout the southland. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Hollywood at Bela Lugosi?s last address. Red Hen Press will release his third collection, Calamity Joe, in March 2012.
Lynnell Edwards is the author of three collections of poetry, Covet (2012), The Highwayman?s Wife (2007), and The Farmer?s Daughter (2003), all from Red Hen Press. Her book reviews and short fiction have been published nationally in such journals as Pleiades, The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Book Review, and New Madrid. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She also writes a books column for Louisville Magazine and is Board member of InKY, inc., sponsor of the monthly literary reading series InKY, which she co-produces.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram has been a Bread Loaf Writers? Conference work-study scholar, a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna. Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Harvard Review, Subtropics, and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest, won the Gulf Coast Magazine Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, and received second place in Narrative Magazine?s poetry contest. Bertram is a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College, where she taught creative writing and literature. Her first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, won the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine. It will be released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
Reading at Skyline College's Women on Writing Festival
Date: 2012-03-10Time: 9:30 am
Location: Skyline College, Building 6, Room 6202
3300 College Dr.
San Bruno, CA 94066
Description:
WOW! Voices Now - Free Admission
Acclaimed authors Camille T. Dungy and Jean Hegland kick off the program by reading their work at Skyline College at 9:30. There will be an open reading with the theme: "Roots and Resources."
Red Hen Press at Bowery Poetry Club in New York City
Date: 2012-03-11Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street
New York City, NY 10012
Description:
David Yezzi’s latest book of poems is Azores, a Slate magazine best book of the year. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2006, 2012), The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poetry Speaks Who I Am, edited by Elise Paschen, and Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins. He is editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and executive editor of The New Criterion. He is currently writing a biography of the poet Anthony Hecht for St. Martin’s Press.
Andrea Scarpino is the author of The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She has taught at California State University Dominguez Hills, Ohio State University, and the Institute for Reading Development, and has also taught ESL in France. She now works in Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies, where she is the Creative Dissertation Coordinator. She is a weekly contributor to the blog “Planet of the Blind” and is widely published in print and online journals. Her interests include sijo, an ancient Korean poetic form, elegy, the intersections of art and politics, and the politics of clean water. She is currently at work on her next collection, to be released by Red Hen Press.
Brynn Saito was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. Her poetry has been anthologized in Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology, 3rd edition and Ishmael Reed’s From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat, among other journals. Brynn holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from New York University. She is the 2011 winner of Red Hen’s Benjamin Saltman Award, judged by David Mason. Her collection of poetry, Bright Power, Dark Peace, will be released by Red Hen in 2013.
George Green has an MFA in poetry from the New School and currently teaches at Lehman College, CUNY, in the Bronx. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180, 180 More, and The Best American Poetry 2005 and 2008. His book Lord Byron’s Foot, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, is forthcoming this fall from St. Augustine’s Press.
For more information on this reading event at Bowery Poetry Club, please contact Red Hen Press at publicity@redhen.org.
Red Hen at the Ruskin
Date: 2012-03-11Time: 2:00 pm
Location: The Ruskin Art Club
800 S Plymouth Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Description:
Please join Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, for a reading by Cheryl Klein and Terry Wolverton, with a reading from and moderation by Eloise Klein Healy. Complimentary wine and cheese will follow the reading. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles' oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997. For more information, please contact Red Hen Press at publicity@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
Cheryl Klein is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press, 2009) and The Commuters (San Diego City Works Press, 2006), which won the Ben Reitman Award. She recently received a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to complete a novel about wayward circus performers. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other, and several anthologies. She directs the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc., by day, and writes about life, art, and carbohydrates on her blog, Bread and Bread.
Literary artist Terry Wolverton is author of nine books: Embers (Red Hen Press, 2003), a novel-in-poems; Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir; Stealing Angel, The Labrys Reunion, and Bailey's Beads, novels; Breath, a self-published collection of short stories; and three collections of poetry: Black Slip, Mystery Bruise, and Shadow and Praise. She has also edited fourteen literary anthologies, including the award winning six-volume series His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Men and Hers: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbians. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also an Associate Faculty Mentor in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007). She has been awarded artist residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Dorland Mountain Colony. She directed the Women's Studies Program at CSU Northridge and was founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, specializes in publishing the work of lesbian authors. She is currently at work on a new book, to be released by Red Hen in 2013.
The Ruskin Art Club
800 S. Plymouth Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Admission: General $10/Students and Seniors $5
Ron Carlson and Brendan Constantine at The Last Bookstore
Date: 2012-03-14Time: 8:00 pm
Location: The Last Bookstore
453 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Description:
Please join Red Hen Press authors Ron Carlson and Brendan Constantine at The Last Bookstore for a reading, discussion, and book signing of their new books, Room Service and Calamity Joe. The Last Bookstore, with its focus on great events and the burgeoning Downtown community, is a Los Angeles treasure. The Last Bookstore is one of the last places in LA still buying books, so trade in a few and pick up a new copy of Room Service and Calamity Joe. For more information, please contact The Last Bookstore at litevents@lastbookstorela.com or Red Hen Press at deanna@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
Ron Carlson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently The Signal. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and other anthologies. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. His book on writing, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, is taught widely. He is director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine. His new book, Room Service, will be released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
Praise for Room Service:
after 10 books of fiction in 35 years [Carlson] ¬will soon make his debut as a poet whose reach successfully achieves a range of voice, tone, and playful distinction.
Publishers Weekly
Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Hollywood. His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably FIELD, Ploughshares, RATTLE, Ninth Letter, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, Redivider, RUNES, and the LA Times-bestseller The Underground Guide To Los Angeles. His first book, Letters to Guns, was released in 2009 by Red Hen Press.
Constantine holds an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently poet-in-residence at both Loyola Marymount University Extension and the Windward School in West Los Angeles. In addition, he conducts workshop classes at foster care centers, hospitals, and with the Alzheimers Poetry Project. His new book, Calamity Joe, will be released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
Praise for Calamity Joe:
In Calamity Joes world, language works as an electric lens through which our world shines back as still ours, but renewed and refreshed. Flamingoes live in a house with plastic people on the lawn With a remarkable attention to craft Constantines poems issue forth from a voice charged by all its seen along the way
Nance Van Winckel
Red Hen at the Geffen Playhouse
Date: 2012-03-19Time: 8:00 pm
Location: The Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Description:
Red Hen Press and the Poetry Society of America are pleased to invite you to spend an evening with the finest authors of our time at Red Hen's Monday Evenings at the Geffen Playhouse. Join us as we feature award-winning writers Rita Mae Reese, Eduardo C. Corral, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg. For more information on this reading, please contact publicity@redhen.org.
Featured readers:
Rita Mae Reese earned a BA in American Studies and an MA in Creative Writing at Florida State University and then an MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While pursuing her MFA, she worked at the Dictionary of American Regional English and immersed herself in the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary where she began to find poetry in etymology. She began writing many of the poems that eventually formed her book The Alphabet Conspiracy (Arktoi Books, 2011). She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Stegner fellowship, and a "Discovery"/The Nation award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Normal School, Imaginative Writing, From Where You Dream, Blackbird, New England Review, The Southern Review, and The Nation. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.
Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. He has received a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. In addition to his many honors, he has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He is the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review, and in 2011, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Beckian Fritz Goldberg holds an MFA from Vermont College and is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Body Betrayer (Cleveland State UP, 1991), Never Be the Horse (U of Akron P, 1999), Lie Awake Lake (Oberlin College Press, 2005), and The Book of Accident (Univ. of Akron Press, 2006.) Her work has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including The Best American Poetry series, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, New American Poets of The 90s, and American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary American Poets. She has been awarded the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, The Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Currently, Goldberg teaches Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
The Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-208-5454
Admission: General $20/Students and Seniors $10
Red Hen at the Armory Center for the Arts
Date: 2012-03-20Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
Description:
Please join Red Hen Press, in association with the Armory Center for the Arts, for an evening of poetry from Kate Gale, Kim Dower, Lisa C. Krueger, and Brendan Constantine, followed by complimentary wine and cheese. The Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through creating, teaching, and presenting the arts. For more information, please contact Red Hen Press at publicity@redhen.org. Admission is free, with a suggested $5 donation.
Featured readers:
Kate Gale, poet, writer, essayist and opera librettist, received her Ph.D. in American and English Literature from Claremont Graduate University. She is on the judging committee of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and is the managing editor of Red Hen Press. She is also the editor of The Los Angeles Review, president of the American Composers Forum–Los Angeles, past president of PEN USA, and serves on the boards of the A Room of Her Own Foundation and the Poetry Society of America. She has published five collections of poetry, most recently Mating Season (Tupelo Press), an autobiographical novel titled Lake of Fire, and a bilingual children’s book. She is also the editor of several anthologies of fiction and non-fiction. As a librettist, she co-authored Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin and composer Stephen Andrew Taylor and wrote Río de Sangre, an original opera, with composer Don Davis. She has a forthcoming collection of poetry, Echo Light (Blaxe Vox, 2012). As an arts manager she curates several reading series in Los Angeles and New York City.
Kim (Freilich) Dower grew up in New York on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. Upon graduating, Kim stayed at Emerson where she taught Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry for two years before moving to Los Angeles where she pursued other writing projects and began her own literary publicity company called Kim-from-L.A., the name for which she has become famous in the world of book publishing. A few years ago, “like magic, like a dream,” poetry re-entered her life and the poems have been rushing out as if a 25 year dam had broken, and she’s been writing three or more poems a week. Kim’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Seneca Review, and in the on-line video magazine, Guerilla Reads. Her book of poems, Air Kissing on Mars, was released by Red Hen Press in 2010. She lives with her family in West Hollywood, California.
Lisa C. Krueger is the author of two books of poetry, Rebloom (Red Hen Press, 2005) and Animals the Size of Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2009). She also has written a series of interactive journals related to psychology and creativity. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications. As a clinical psychologist she maintains a private therapy practice focused on women’s issues, writing therapy, and the role of creativity in wellness. She lives in Pasadena with her husband and three children.
Brendan Constantine was born in 1967, the second child of two working actors. An ardent supporter of Southern California’s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets, he has served as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges for the last seventeen years. His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Cortland Review, RUNES, and LA Times Bestseller The Underground Guide to Los Angeles. He released his first collection, Letters to Guns, in 2009 (Red Hen Press). He is currently poet-in-residence at the Windward School in West Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University Extension. He is also currently working with The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, bringing poetry workshops to Alzheimer’s patients throughout the southland. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Hollywood at Bela Lugosi’s last address. Red Hen Press will release his third collection, Calamity Joe, in March 2012.
Reading, lecture, radio interview, and student conferences, Minnesota State, Mankato, MN
Date: 2012-03-22Time: 0:00 am
Location: Minnesota State College
Mankato, MN
Description:
Reading, Lecture, Radio Interview, and Student Conferences
Date: 2012-03-22Time: 0:00 am
Location: Minnesota State
Mankato, MN
Description:
Reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book
Date: 2012-03-24Time: 4:00 am
Location: New Dominion Bookshop
404 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Description:
Rock, Scissors, Paper: A Poetry Reading
Jim Peterson will be reading with Shara McCallum and Bobby C. Rogers at the Virginia Festival of the Book. These authors begin complex journeys from the simplest things.
Lynnell Edwards at the Kentucky Book Festival
Date: 2012-04-21Time: 0:00 am
Location: Carroll Knicely Conference Center
654 Campbell Lane
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Description:
The author will do a reading and signing at the Southern Kentucky Book Festival.
Poetry Reading and Discussion at the Walnut Creek Library
Date: 2012-04-26Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Walnut Creek Library, Oak View Room
1644 N. Broadway
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Description:
Poetry Live! with Camille Dungy
The author will read and discuss her poetry at the Walnut Creek Library, in the Oak View Room.
Bart Edelman at Glendale Public Library
Date: 2012-04-29Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Glendale Public Library
Central Library Auditorium, 222 E. Harvard St.
Glendale, CA
Description:
"Author Artists & Friends Series"
Please join bart Edelman for a reading at Glendale Public Library.
Speaking at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference
Date: 2012-06-09Time: 1:45 pm
Location: Land's End Resort, Quarterdeck B
4786 Homer Spit Road
Homer, AK 99603
Description:
OOPS: Finding the Muse Through Mishap
Camille Dungy will speak at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conferene on Saturday, June 9th, about mistakes other people make, mistakes we've made in our own lives, mistakes we make in our writing and can use. She will read poems that seem to have stemmed from accidents (some more happy than others) and investigate how the poets have used such moments to create moving and viable poems.
Speaking at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference
Date: 2012-06-12Time: 8:30 am
Location: Land's End Resort, Quarterdeck B
4786 Homer Spit Road
Homer, AK 99603
Description:
It's Only Natural...
Camilly Dungy will be at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference in Homer, Alaska, to discuss how repetition is all over nature, and how repetition can help your poems. In this workshop, she will review a few ways that the land, the ocean, animals, and other manifestations of the natural world can provide sources of inspiration and guidance to write stronger and more exciting poems.
Conducting Workshops at the Virginia Highlands Festival
Date: 2012-07-30Time: 0:00 am
Location: Historic Abingdon
(TBD)
Abingdon, VA
Description:
Jim Peterson will be conducting two workshops at the Virginia Highlands Festival. As the 2012 featured poet, he will also be doing a reading Monday evening (specific event times to be determined).
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