Poetry reading by K.A. Hays
Thursday, March 4
7:30 PM at the Bloomsburg Public Library
Poems from Katie Hays' first book, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon 2009), have appeared or will be in The Best American Poetry 2009, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, The Southern Review, and Gray's Sporting Journal.
Her chapbook, Some Monolith, was published this winter as part of the Black Warrior Review Chapbook Series, and contains seventeen poems from her in-progress second manuscript; other poems which have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Poetry Northwest. Katie is currently finishing her third year as the Emerging Writer at Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. She and her husband are hikers, canoeists, and soon-to-be parents (due in April).
This event is sponsored by the River Poets, and will be followed by an open reading. MC: Mike DeMarco.
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2/1/09
K. A. Hays & Erinn Batykefer: Bucknell: 2/24/09
Tuesday, February 24, 7 PM:
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together in Bucknell Hall.
K. A. Hays, the 2008-09 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Poems from her first book, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon), have appeared in such venues as Missouri Review, Southern Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2007. Her verse translations and fiction have appeared in GulfCoast, Hudson Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. She is a native of southeast Pennsylvania.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2008-09 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. Batykefer’s debut collection of poetry, Allegheny, Monongahela, won the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Prize and will appear from Red Hen Press this year. Her poetry and nonfiction have recently appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, The Journal, and Agenda (UK). She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Outside the Basilica di San Petronio
A girl is after pigeons, tracking them.
She bows her head. She holds up her palms.
Her hand goes out and the things gust off.
Meanwhile the nuns in the basilica clutch beads
beneath their habits. And the priest
cleans the chalice, making it shine.
She is eager for the next step: to hold the flurry
of beak and breast, to draw it close.
She is stepping, pausing, tensed
and watchful as the underside of prayer.
When the birds rise, the white in their breasts
flashes before the basilica. The girl’s arms fall.
It is as easy as wine to blood, how they lift
into the ether. They are as good to her
as the miraculous saints. Dear saints,
keeping always and perfectly away.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
In O’Keeffe’s From the Lake, No. 3,
I see a lace of algae as a map—here, a waterway,
gritty houses dotting Troy Hill as it rises from the river,
ochre silt like sandstone sheared by highways.
It is summer. We pull the seashells from the garden
and press each one to our ears; we listen through dirt
for their coiled echolalia,
the way they endlessly whisper back the wishes
we tied to stones and dropped in the rivers.
The way they relay the secrets of our younger selves back
in the semaphores of the sea: furling,
unfurling. This is our city from above, the way
we remember it—suspended in a haze of morning;
we see through the weight of air blued by water
to the shapes we know, the way we can see our faces
welling up through a breath-fogged mirror:
Allegheny, Monongahela.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together in Bucknell Hall.
K. A. Hays, the 2008-09 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Poems from her first book, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon), have appeared in such venues as Missouri Review, Southern Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2007. Her verse translations and fiction have appeared in GulfCoast, Hudson Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. She is a native of southeast Pennsylvania.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2008-09 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. Batykefer’s debut collection of poetry, Allegheny, Monongahela, won the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Prize and will appear from Red Hen Press this year. Her poetry and nonfiction have recently appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, The Journal, and Agenda (UK). She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Outside the Basilica di San Petronio
A girl is after pigeons, tracking them.
She bows her head. She holds up her palms.
Her hand goes out and the things gust off.
Meanwhile the nuns in the basilica clutch beads
beneath their habits. And the priest
cleans the chalice, making it shine.
She is eager for the next step: to hold the flurry
of beak and breast, to draw it close.
She is stepping, pausing, tensed
and watchful as the underside of prayer.
When the birds rise, the white in their breasts
flashes before the basilica. The girl’s arms fall.
It is as easy as wine to blood, how they lift
into the ether. They are as good to her
as the miraculous saints. Dear saints,
keeping always and perfectly away.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
In O’Keeffe’s From the Lake, No. 3,
I see a lace of algae as a map—here, a waterway,
gritty houses dotting Troy Hill as it rises from the river,
ochre silt like sandstone sheared by highways.
It is summer. We pull the seashells from the garden
and press each one to our ears; we listen through dirt
for their coiled echolalia,
the way they endlessly whisper back the wishes
we tied to stones and dropped in the rivers.
The way they relay the secrets of our younger selves back
in the semaphores of the sea: furling,
unfurling. This is our city from above, the way
we remember it—suspended in a haze of morning;
we see through the weight of air blued by water
to the shapes we know, the way we can see our faces
welling up through a breath-fogged mirror:
Allegheny, Monongahela.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
K.A. Hays & Erinn Batykefer: Bloomsburg: 2/16/09
Poets K.A. Hays and Erinn Batykefer will both read from their work at Bloomsburg University on Monday, February 16, at 7 PM in Monty's Assembly Room on the Upper Campus. This reading is free and open to the public. For more information on Hays and Batykefer, click here.
6/1/08
Erinn Batykefer, Katie Hays, Deirdre O'Connor, G C Waldrep: Bucknell: 6/10/08
The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets staff will read their work on Tuesday evening at 7pm in Bucknell Hall. Readers are Erinn Batykefer, K A Hays, Deirdre O'Connor, and G C Waldrep.
This reading is free and open to the public.
This reading is free and open to the public.
9/1/07
Katie Hays & Erinn Batykefer: Bucknell: 9/25/07
Tuesday, Sept 25, 7 PM:
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together on Tuesday evening in Bucknell Hall.
K A Hays, the 2007-08 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Florida Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Missouri Review, Antioch Review and other magazines. Hays is also a fiction writer and verse translator whose work in those genres has appeared in Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and other magazines.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2007-08 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. She is currently at work on first collections of both creative nonfiction and poetry; her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Threepenny Review, and Maisonneuve Magazine, among others. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together on Tuesday evening in Bucknell Hall.
K A Hays, the 2007-08 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Florida Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Missouri Review, Antioch Review and other magazines. Hays is also a fiction writer and verse translator whose work in those genres has appeared in Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and other magazines.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2007-08 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. She is currently at work on first collections of both creative nonfiction and poetry; her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Threepenny Review, and Maisonneuve Magazine, among others. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
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