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Peter Campion Wins Levis Reading Prize
Peter Campion’s The Lions (Chicago) won the 13th annual Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book of poetry published in 2009. Campion will receive ... [ read more ]
W.S. Merwin Name U.S. Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress announced that W.S. Merwin will follow Kay Ryan as the 17th Poet Laureate of the United States. The post comes with an annual salary of $35,000. Merwin is the author of seventeen ... [ read more ]
Recent Media
Mary Jo Bang Reading
Mary Jo Bang reading "Manor Close" at AWP in Chicago.
Recent Interview
Interview with David Kirby
November, 2000 (published in The Arkansas Review) DAVID KIRBY is the author or coauthor of eighteen books, including five poetry collections. The House of Blue Light, his latest collection of poetry, appeared from LSU Press in 2000. In 1987, his first collection of poetry, Saving the Young Men of Vienna, was awarded The Brittingham Prize in Poetry from The University of Wisconsin Press. A recipient of grants from the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, his other honors include five Florida State University teaching awards and Southern Poetry Review’s Guy Owen Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as Poems & Plays, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Chelsea, Smartish Pace, Virginia Quarterly, Gettysburg Review and The Best American Poetry, 2000 & 2001. Kirby was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1944. He received his bachelor’s degree in English form LSU in 1966 and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1969. He is the W. Guy McKenzie Professor of English at Florida State University, where he has taught since 1969. It is evident in Kirby’s poetry that he has forever unabashedly “stirred the pot.” ... [ read more ]
Upcoming Events
Michael Collier & David Gewanter Poetry Reading
9/26/2010 (2:00pm) -- (3:30pm)
The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Free
The Smartish Pace Reading Series continues with poets Michael Collier and David Gewanter. Collier is the author of five books of poems, most recently Dark Wild Realm; and co-editor of A William Maxwell Portrait. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, his poems appeared in Smartish Pace, Issue 17. Gewanter is the author of three books of poems: In the Belly, The Sleep of Reason and War Bird; and co-editor of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 9. Gewanter is a professor at Georgetown University.
http://thewalters.org/
Poe-apalooza
10/31/2010 (2:00pm) -- (3:30pm)
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda, MD 20815
Free
The Writer's Center, in partnership with Pyramid Atlantic & the NEA's Big Read program, will host a reading featuring poets, including Smartish Pace's Clare Banks & Stephen Reichert, reading their favorite Poe poems & original Poe inspired work.
www.writer.org
Recent Review
Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems
The poet inclined to write about the family dog had better manipulate language like a MOMIX contortionist or offer the truly unexpected if he hopes to create great poetry – and Robert Wrigley does. From the stolid boy who knows his dog is as good as dead when the farmer arrives with a gutted chicken to the quiver of the dog’s ears as the girl holds him down and commands the pet to say he ... [ read more ]
