3 events to end National Poetry Month
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 5-6:30pm, USF Marshall Center Room 2708
thread (the undergraduate literary magazine of USF) Volume 5 Launch Party & Reading
USF undergraduate students who appear in this issue of the magazine will read their work; copies of the magazine will be available; free Chipotle burritos and Kaleisia tea.
Wednesday April 27, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Traditions Hall, USF Alumni Center
Poetry Reading and Discussion
Galway Kinnell
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the USF Humanities Institute/University Lecture Series/Department of English will host poet Galway Kinnell on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in Traditions Hall (USF Alumni Center). Galway Kinnell is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Book of Nightmares, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Imperfect Thirst, and most recently A New Selected Poems and Strong is Your Hold. He also published a novel, Black Light; a selection of interviews, Walking Down the Stairs; and a book for children, as well as translations of works by Yves Bonnefoy, Yvan Goll, Francois Villon, and Rainer Maria Rilke. A former MacArthur Fellow and State Poet of Vermont, he has been a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In 1982, his Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and in 2002, he was awarded the Frost Medal by the Poetry Society of America. He taught for many years at New York University, where he was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing.
Friday, April 29, 2011, YellowJacket Press Poetry Party
6-9 pm, Eckerd College, Flamingo Room (Continuing Education Center)
4200 54th Ave. South
St. Petersburg, FL
Readings, art and music featuring Peter Meinke, James Tokley, Laura Sobbot Ross, Melissa Carroll, Charles Flowers, Rhonda Nelson, Helen Wallace, and Scott Ward; raffles, YJP books and bumper stickers for sale, refreshments.
Don't be shy, leave a comment...
You must be logged in to post a comment.