Gregory Orr & Clarinda Harriss
Smartish Pace Reading Series
Friday, June 13, 2008
6:30 PM
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-547-9000
The reading is free and open to the public.
Gregory Orr is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon, 2005). His memoir, The Blessing (Council Oak, 2002), was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction books of the year. He has written three books of essays including Poetry as Survival (U. of Georgia, 2002). Orr has received a Guggenheim, Rockefeller and two NEA fellowships; in 2003 he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of Virginia where in 1975 he founded the MFA Program in Writing. His new poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 15.
Clarinda Harriss is the author of seven books of poetry with Mortmain just released from Half Moon Editions. Novelist Geoff Bakers has said of her work, "Clarinda Harriss writes poems with precision and humor about Baltimore, sex, mortality…." She teaches at Towson University and directs BrickHouse Books, Inc., Maryland's oldest continuously publishing literary press.
The poets will be available to sign books after the reading. We look forward to seeing you on June 13th!
For more information, please contact Stephen Reichert at sreichert@smartishpace.com.
Smartish Pace Reading Series
Friday, June 13, 2008
6:30 PM
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-547-9000
The reading is free and open to the public.
Gregory Orr is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon, 2005). His memoir, The Blessing (Council Oak, 2002), was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction books of the year. He has written three books of essays including Poetry as Survival (U. of Georgia, 2002). Orr has received a Guggenheim, Rockefeller and two NEA fellowships; in 2003 he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of Virginia where in 1975 he founded the MFA Program in Writing. His new poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 15.
Clarinda Harriss is the author of seven books of poetry with Mortmain just released from Half Moon Editions. Novelist Geoff Bakers has said of her work, "Clarinda Harriss writes poems with precision and humor about Baltimore, sex, mortality…." She teaches at Towson University and directs BrickHouse Books, Inc., Maryland's oldest continuously publishing literary press.
The poets will be available to sign books after the reading. We look forward to seeing you on June 13th!
For more information, please contact Stephen Reichert at sreichert@smartishpace.com.
If you are a poet (or publishing company) who is interested in having Smartish
Pace sponsor a reading for you in the Washington
D.C./Baltimore Area, please contact via e-mail
or at:
Smartish Pace Readings
P.O. Box 22161
Baltimore, MD 21203
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Michael Salcman, Marilyn L. Taylor, Joyce S. Brown, Gaylord Brewer
(October 9, 2004)
William Wenthe and Jason Gray
(March 6, 2004)
Michael Salcman and Stephen Cushman
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