upcoming
2008-2009 events:
POETRY LECTURE &
WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13• 9:00AM-4:00PM
with continental breakfast
"THE POETRY OF WORK"
with DAVID ST. JOHN
A lecture workshop and discussion of the place and
history of work (and industry) in poetry, looking at
poems by Philip Levine, B. H. Fairchild, Joe Millar,
George Oppen, Gloria Fuertes, Thomas McGrath, Adrienne
Rich, and others, please bring twenty-five copies (the
extras are for auditors)-of a poem by a poet (any of
the above, or others) whose work relates to your sense
of this topic, bring twenty-five copies of a poem of
your own for the afternoon session,
$85 all day • $45 morning audit
To register, please call: 310-936-7484 or e-mail:
Ekduende@cox.net
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POETRY AT THE RUSKIN
(Red Hen Press)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
• 2:00PM
TRACY
K. SMITH & JULIANA
SPAHR
Red Hen Press, in
association with the venerable Ruskin Art
Club, is proud to present the 2008-2009
season of Southern California's acclaimed
reading series, Poetry at the Ruskin. Kate
Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press,
and Elena Karina Byrne, past Regional
Director of the Poetry Society of America
and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for
the Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books, are your hosts. Please join them
for readings by Tracy K. Smith and Juliana
Spahr, followed by a reception with
complimentary refreshments.
Tracy K. Smith is
the author of The Body's Question.
She received a Whiting Writers' Award in
2005 and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers'
Award in 2006. Her second collection of
poetry, Duende (Graywolf, 2007),
won the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the
Academy of American Poets. Elizabeth
Alexander, in her judge statement for the
James Laughlin Award describes Smith's
poetry as "mysterious but utterly
lucid---deeply satisfying and necessarily
inclusive---and pristinely beautiful
without ever being precious."
She lives in Brooklyn and is an assistant
professor of creative writing at Princeton
University.
Juliana Spahr is
a poet, critic, and editor. Among her
books of poems are This Connection of
Everyone with Lungs (University of
California Press, 2005) and
Response (Sun and Moon Press,
1996), winner of the National Poetry
Series Award.
Spahr's first collection of poetry was
Nuclear (Leave Books, 1994). Her
latest work is The Transformation
(Atelos Press, 2007).
She was coeditor, with Jena Osman, of the
international arts journal
Chain.
$10/$5 (students/seniors)
•••••••
past
2008 events:
POETRY AT THE RUSKIN
(Red Hen Press)
SUNDAY, MAY 18 • 2:00PM
SARAH BEIN &
CHARLES HOOD
$10/$5 (students/seniors)
POETRY
READING
SATURDAY, MAY 31
• 2:00PM
DANIEL
TIFFANY & BRENDA
SHAUGHNESSY
$10/$5
ALL-DAY
POETRY WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
• 9:00AM-4:00PM
with continental breakfast &
lunch
"POETRY
& HUMOR" with MOLLY
BENDALL
$85 all day •
$45 morning audit
AN
EVENING WITH FILMMAKER LARRY
BRIDGES
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
• 7:30PM
featuring a
presentation of his new documentary: "MUSE
OF FIRE"
Clips from "WHY
SHAKESPEARE" and "THE BIG
READ"
Reception follows
screening • $10/$5
POETRY
AT THE RUSKIN (Red Hen
Press)
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
• 2:00PM
KATHERINE
COLES & CHERYL KLEIN
$10/$5
POETRY
& TRANSLATION
A special reading
& presentation
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
• 3:00PM
SHOLEH
WOLPE
$10/$5
POETRY
& MUSIC!
SATURDAY, JUNE 21
• 3:00PM
BRIAN
TRACY
WITH MUSICIANS
RENEE SAFIER & ANDY
HILL
$10/$5
ALL-DAY
WORKSHOP: "Swallowing the
Eye"
IMAGE &
SURREALISM THEN & NOW
SUNDAY JUNE 22
• 9:00AM-4:00PM
with continental breakfast & lunch,
and poets
BRENDAN
CONSTANTINE & ELENA KARINA
BYRNE
$85 all day •
$45 morning audit
