extended hiatus

Due to expanded commitments to my small press, I've been forced to cut down on some other projects. I would be delighted if someone else came forward to carry on this blog. Meanwhile, I hope some of the links and contacts herein are of some use.

-RM

9/1/06

Benjamin Grossberg: Bucknell: 9/27/06

Poet Benjamin Scott Grossberg will present an informal talk on Wednesday, September 27, at noon in Roberts Hall on the Bucknell campus, as part of the Writing Center’s Writers at Work series.

Benjamin Scott Grossberg is an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Antioch College, where he teaches poetry writing, English Renaissance Literature, and English poetry. He is the author of the chapbook The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel (Kent State University Press, 2006), and of the forthcoming Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) winner of the Richard Snyder Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Paris Review, and twice in West Branch. He has received several awards for his writing, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and a Pushcart Prize. He lives on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio.

This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.

COMMON WEALTH Poets at Susquehanna River Conference: Bucknell: 9/23/06

On Saturday, September 23, the Upper Susquehanna River Basin Conference at Bucknell University will conclude with a reading by poets appearing in Common Wealth: Contemporary poets on Pennsylvania. The conference will be held in the Langone Center on the Bucknell campus, and the reading will commence at 5:30 PM. Poets who are scheduled to read include Marjorie Maddox, Deirdre O’Connor, Ron Mohring, Karl Patten, Charlie Rice, and Jerry Wemple. For more information, please contact Bucknell University at 570-577-2000.

Matthew Zapruder: Bucknell University: 9/22/06

Poet Matthew Zapruder will present an informal talk on Friday, September 22, at noon in Roberts Hall on the Bucknell campus, as part of the Writing Center’s Writers at Work series. This talk will follow up on Thursday evening’s WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour Reading in Bucknell Hall [see previous announcement].

Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press 2002), and of The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, forthcoming 2006). His poems have appeared or are upcoming in The Boston Review, Fence, Alaska Quarterly Review, Open City, Painted Bride Quarterly, Bomb, Jubilat, Harvard Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He teaches poetry in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New School, works as an Editor with Wave Books, and is co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. He lives in New York City.

This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.

WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour: Bucknell University: 9/21/06

On Thursday, September 21, don’t miss the WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour Reading. This is one of only two Pennsylvania stops on the reading schedule; the other is Pittsburgh on Sept 20. The event will begin at 6:00 PM in Bucknell Hall on the Bucknell University campus.

Stopping at 50 cities in 50 days, the
Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is the biggest literary event of 2006. Throughout September and October, over one hundred poets, along with musicians, filmmakers and journalists, will participate as the bus traverses North America, bringing innovative poetry to big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada. Sponsored by Wave Books, the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible.

Beginning September 4 and ending October 27, the bus tour will visit a variety of venues, including the Space Needle in Seattle, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, the Museum of Natural History in LA, the Green Mill in Chicago, the DiA Arts Center in New York, and a number of bookstores, galleries, bars, prisons and schools all across the US and Canada.
Participating poets include Eileen Myles, James Tate, Cole Swensen, Dean Young, John Yau, Vijay Seshadri, Lewis Warsh, Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Juliana Spahr, John Godfrey, Joshua Clover, David Rivard, Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder, Ann Lauterbach, Tyehimba Jess, Dana Levin, Hoa Nguyen, Jeff Clark, Richard Siken, Bob Hicok, Katy Lederer, Kim Addonizio, Arthur Sze, Catherine Wagner, Srikanth Reddy, Matthew Rohrer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bhanu Kapil and over 100 more.

This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information on this event, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their
website.

Three Cave Canem Poets: Bucknell: 9/5/06

Poets Erica Doyle, Yona Harvey and Tyehimba Jess will read on Tuesday, September 5, at 7 PM in Bucknell Hall. This reading is a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Cave Canem.

Cave Canem is an organization devoted to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Best known for its celebrated summer workshop, Cave Canem has grown to include regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, and events in major cities around the United States. Poets Doyle, Harvey, and Jess have served as Cave Canem fellows and appear in the recently published 10th anniversary anthology Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press).

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their website.