Poetry! Athens, GA

Scott Cairns will read on Tuesday, April 3rd 7:30PM @ Hot Corner

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The Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Georgia Review Present: Scott Cairns in Athens Award-winning poet Scott Cairns will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, at Hot Corner Café (Washington and Hull, downtown Athens). Cairns' visit is sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Circuit and by The Georgia Review, the circuit's Athens coordinator. Scott Cairns was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1954. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1990. Cairns' spiritual memoir, Short Trip to the Edge, (HarperSanFrancisco) and a collection of adaptations and translations, Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (Paraclete Press), will both appear in 2007. Recent poetry collections include Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected (Paraclete Press, 2006), Philokalia (Zoo Press, 2002), and Recovered Body (Braziller, 1998). Cairns has published poems in such journals as Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and Paris Review. Cairns received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Wednesday, March 28th @7PM at Flicker

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Peter Davis & Bruce Covey will be reading for VOX.

Peter Davis' book of poems is Hitler's Mustache. His poetry has appeared in journals like Court Green, McSweeneys, and Octopus. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art. His CD of music, Short Hand: Good Enough, is available through Collectible Escalators Records. He lives in Muncie, Indiana and teaches at Ball State University.

Bruce Covey is Lecturer of Creative Writing at Emory University and the author of The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires (Front Room, Ann Arbor), Elapsing Speedway Organism (No Tell Books, Washington, DC), and the forthcoming Ten Pins, Ten Frames (Front Room). His recent poems also appear or are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Verse, LIT, Columbia Poetry Review, Bombay Gin, Boog City, Lungfull, Cimarron Review, Explosive Magazine, and other journals. He edits the web-based poetry magazine Coconut and curates the What’s New in Poetry reading series in Atlanta.

Monday, February 26 @ 7PM at Tasty World

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Oni Buchanan, Jon Woodward, and Jake Adam York will be reading for VOX.

ALBERT GOLDBARTH, "THE AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION"

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Albert Goldbarth, the only living two-time winner of the National Book
Critics Circle Award in poetry and the author of some thirty volumes of
poetry and prose, will read from his work on Monday, April 10, at 7 p.m.
upstairs at Tasty World, on the corner of Broad and Jackson streets. The
reading is open to the public free of charge.

Goldbarth will be touring for the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a consortium
of colleges and universities around the state which has been featuring
nationally and internationally known writers for more than twenty years. *The
Georgia Review*, the University of Georgia's acclaimed quarterly journal of
arts and letters, is UGA's coordinating sponsor for the Circuit.

Critic Judith Kitchen has said that "Albert Goldbarth just may be the
American poet of his generation for the ages. Often humorous but always
serious, Goldbarth combines erudite research, pop-culture fanaticism, and
personal anecdote in ways that make his writings among the most
stylistically recognizable in the literary world." The level of ambition in
Goldbarth's work is revealed by a glance at a few of his book titles: *Arts
and Sciences*, *The Gods*, *Combinations of the Universe*, and *Great Topics
of the World*.

Goldbarth's prodigious output—roughly one book per year for three
decades—has included nearly two dozen poetry collections, a handful of essay
collections, and a novel. Several of his books were first published the the
UGA Press, including *Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology *(poems), winner of the
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2007, Graywolf Press will
publish Goldbarth's *The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007*.

Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University since
1987, Goldbarth has earned three fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Arts and one from the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the Center for
the Study of Science Fiction Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Here is one section out of nine in Albert Goldbarth's poem "Too Much,"
first published in *The Georgia Review* and then included in *Heaven and
Earth: A Cosmology*:

"Give me a villain. Give me just one clearcut targeted

ne'er-do-well with rat eyes and a smoking gun, to hold

responsible all night while the stink of cordite settles.

Well, he isn't here. He never was. It's all of us

torturing all of us. It's dressed in its Sunday best.

And the boy with the tumor? Of course The Great

Shaheesh the Mystic Light was no more help

than the great chemotherapy; now he's barely a doll

of himself. I've watched his mother watch his face

with the sun on it, then with the moon on it, watching

until time had no meaning: we're floating,

falling, yes, and even the unhearable klaxon-horn

of a hadron, the unbroached stroke of a lepton, just a single

neutrino barely in existence's embrace, is too much."

Selected titles by Albert Goldbarth will be available for purchase at
the reading. For further information, contact the office of *The Georgia
Review* at 706-542-3481 or at garev@uga.edu.

Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Robert Wrigley Monday January 23rd, 7:30pm, Little Kings Club

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Robert Wrigley, winner of the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Award, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous other awards for his poetry, will
read from his work on Monday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Little Kings
on the corner of Hancock and Hull Streets in downtown Athens.

Wrigley will be traveling on the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a
consortium of colleges and universities that has been bringing
nationally known writers to the state for more than twenty years. "The
Georgia Review," the University of Georgia's acclaimed quarterly
journal of arts and letters, is UGA's liaison to the Circuit.

Professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative
writing at the University of Idaho, Wrigley has published six books of
poems, including "Lives of the Animals" (2003), "Reign of Snakes"
(1999), and "In the Bank of Beautiful Sins" (1995), all from Penguin.
His earlier collections are "What My Father Believed" (1991) and "Moon
in a Mason Jar" (1986), both from University of Illinois Press, and
"The Sinking of Clay City (1979) from Copper Canyon.

Wrigley's work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals,
including "The Best American Poetry 2003," "The New Yorker," "Poetry,"
"The Partisan Review," and "The American Poetry Review."

Wrigley held the distinguished Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry at
the University of Montana in 1990 and 1995. Before joining the faculty at
the University of Idaho, he had taught at Lewis-Clark College, the
University of Oregon, and Warren College. He lives with his wife, the
writer Kim Barnes, and their children, on the Clearwater River in
Idaho.

LUCIPO READING AT FLICKER, SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd (4PM-6PM)

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Here's the lineup:

Ken Rumble is the director of the Desert City Poetry Series and the poetry buyer for Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His manuscript /Key
Bridge/ has been a finalist two years in a row for the Verse Book Prize. His
poems have appeared in Gutcult, Parakeet, The Tiny, New College Review, Coconut, Carolina Quarterly, among others. He can say "Czeslaw Milosz" with his mouth full of crackers.

Brian Howe is a freelance writer and poet living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a contributing writer at Pitchforkmedia.com, a contributing editor at
Paste Magazine, and a blogger here. His work has been featured in Eratio, Octopus, McSweeney's, GutCult and Volutions.

Marcus Slease is a native of Portadown, N. Ireland and a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group. He is the author of three manuscripts: Mouth Harp, Campanology,
and Resident Alien. All forthcoming at some point. His poetry has been published
in Octopus, Columbia Poetry Review, Forklift Ohio, and Conduit (among others).
He lives with his wife Tiffany in Greensboro, NC. You can read his blog here.

Julian Semilian teaches film editing at North Carolina School of the Arts, after
24 years of editing in Hollywood. He published three books: Transgender Organ
Grinder (Spuyten Duyvil Press) Paul Celan's Romanian Poems (translation; Green
Integer), A Spy in Amnesia (Spuyten Duyvil). His translation of Mircea
Cartarescu's novel, Nostalgia, will be coming out this fall from New Directions,
while Spuyten Duyvil will publish his new book, Osiris With The Trombone Across
The Seam Of Insubstance.

David Need lives in Durham with wife, son (but not for long) and four cats. He's
been quietly writing and reading poetry since 1975. David works as an adjunct
instructor for Duke University (since 2000) in Asian Religions and Literature.
He's been writing and presenting poetry since 1975 with a fifteen year hiatus
when practicing Buddhism in his twenties and early thirties. For the most part,
David has not attempted to get published, preferring to produce limited
hand-made editions/tracts and to give readings. He writes reviews for Oyster Boy
and the Independent.

Todd Sandvik lives in Carrboro. He hosts The Blue Door reading series, a
nocturnal companion to Desert City Poetry events. He is a member of Lucifer
Poetics Group. His poems have appeared in Fascicle, and he is the Poet Laureate
of Carrboro.

Randall Williams is a freelance reporter, anti-war activist and poet living in
Hillsborough, N.C. His articles, poems and literary reviews have appeared or are
forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Salon, The Independent, Word /for Word and GutCult.
Since 2001, he has taught journalism and creative writing in the Office of
Continuing Studies at Duke University. Junk Horse Press published his two
chapbooks Empire and 40 Days in 2003 and 2004.

Tim Earley's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, DIAGRAM, Chicago
Review, jubilat, Hotel Amerika, Forklift Ohio, and other journals. A chapbook,
The Spooking of Mavens, will be available from Rank Stranger Press later this
year. His first full-length collection, Boondoogle, was recently published by
Main Street Rag Press.

Ted Pope:
Originally from the dustbowl state of Oklahoma, Ted Pope came of age in the
foothills of western North Carolina, founding the spoken word band Sister Raven
and becoming one of the darlings of the American SLAM scene, and a participant
in the early Lollapalooza tours. His work has recently appeared in Nexus,
Nantahala Review, and Asheville Poetry Review. A recent chapbook, Jousting From
the Back of a Mule, was published in 2004 by Third Lung Press.

Larissa Szporluk Wednesday November 16th at 4pm in UGA Student Learning Center 248

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The Georgia Poetry Circuit presents a reading by poet Larissa Szporluk on Wednesday November 16th at 4pm in the University of Georgia Student Learning Center Room 248. Szporluk is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Bowling Green State University, and has published three books of poetry: Dark Sky Question (Beacon Press 1998) winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, Isolato (University of Iowa Press 2000), and The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (Alice James Books, 2003). She is also the recipient of a 1998 Rona Jaffe Writers Awared, a 2003 NEA fellowship, and an OAC Individual Awared for Poetry, 2003-2004. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1999 and 2001, Best of Beacon 2001, New American Voices and Young American Poets. She lives with her husband, Carlo Celli, and their two children in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Sponsered by The Georgia Review. Free and open to the public!

Call 706-542-3481 for more info.

Heather McHugh reads Tuesday November 15 3:30pm in the UGA Chapel!

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Poet and translator Heather McHugh will read from her work at 3:30 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. McHugh's books of poetry include Eyeshot (Wesleyan University Press, 2003); Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 (1994), which won both the Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, was a Finalist for the National Book Award, and was named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review; Shades (1988); To the Quick (1987); A World of Difference (1981); and Dangers (1977). She is also the author of Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (1993), and two books of translation: Because the Sea is Black: Poems of Blaga Dimitrova (with Niko Boris, 1989) and D'après tout: Poems by Jean Follain (1981). Her honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. In 1999 she was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. McHugh teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and as Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.

ACTION BOOKS LAUNCH PARTY: Arielle Greenberg, Aase Berg & Lara Glenum - Saturday, Oct. 22, 7PM - Little Kings Club

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You are warmly invited to the Action Books launch party and poetry reading at 7:00PM on Saturday, October 22 at Little Kings Club (corner of Hull and Hancock). We will be celebrating the publication of Action Books’ inaugural three titles: The Hounds of No, by Athens’ own Lara Glenum, Arielle Greenberg’s My Kafka Century, and Remainland, the selected poems of Swedish poet Aase Berg. All three poets will read from their books, and there will be general celebratory mayhem.

Action Books is an independent poetry press launched in 2005 by Johannes Goransson (Athens, GA) and Joyelle McSweeney (Tuscaloosa, AL).

Arielle Greenberg is the author of Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbook Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the anthologies Best American Poetry 2004 and 2005, Legitimate Danger: American Poets of the New Century, and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets and in journals including Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, and American Poetry Review.

Aase Berg is a poet, literary critic and translator. She is the author of four books: Hos rådjur (With Deer, 1997); Mörk Materia (Dark Matter, 2000 ), a book-length science-fiction prose poem; Forsla fett (Transfer Fat), which was nominated for the prestigious Augustpriser for the best poetry book of 2002; and Uppland (2005). She currently resides in Stockholm.

Lara Glenum’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Conjunctions, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Fence, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere.

For more information on Action Books titles: www.actionbooks.com

Vox Reading Series Hurricane Relief Benefit this Saturday October 8th, 4pm-11pm, at Little Kings Club

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The Vox Reading Series Hurricane Relief Benefit is
this Saturday, October 8th, 4pm-11pm at Little Kings
Club (223 Hancock Avenue on the corner of Hull
Street). We'll have:

-A marathon reading (schedule of readers below)!

-An auction every hour; each hour we'll auction off
great literary items--signed books, chapbooks,
packages of books from Hill Street Press and
Soft Skull Press, and more!

-Live music at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, and 10pm featuring local
guitarists and bluegrass performers including Adam
Henne, Honest Engine, Brian Connell
and members of The Dickens,
and we might even get a few writers to join in!

-Treats and snacks donated by The Grit, Marti's at
Midday, and other such local establishments, and our
own English department gourmets!

We're looking forward to a great afternoon for a
worthy and timely cause. Please join us and lend your
support to those recovering and rebuilding in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina. The suggested donation is $10, or
whatever you can spare, and all proceeds from the event
go to The Red Cross. Donate at the door.
Checks can be made out to the American Red Cross
(note "Hurricane Katrina" in the memo line).

Please e-mail dpafunda@yahoo.com with general queries!

Schedule of Readers and Performers
4:00 – 5:00
*Live Music*
Danielle Pafunda
Sian Griffiths
Andy Frazee
*Auction*
Bruce Covey
Heather Matesich

5:00 – 6:00
Jeff Newberry
Dorine Preston
AC Hoff
*Auction*
Patrick Denker

6:00 – 7:00
*Live Music – Brian Connell and guests*
TR Hummer
*Auction*
Kristen Iskandrian
Laurel Snyder

7:00 – 8:00
David Ingle
Patrick Hargon
Lowry Pressly
*Auction*
Lisa Hargon-Smith
Kirsten Kaschock

8:00 – 9:00
*Live Music – Brian Connell and guests*
Lara Glenum
Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann
*Auction*
Andrew Leidner

9:00 – 10:00
Jan Burkins
Chris McDermott
Sabrina Orah Mark
*Auction*
Cannon Daughtrey

10:00 – 11:00
*Live Music - Brian Connell and guests*

DANIELLE PAFUNDA, SHANNA COMPTON, AND JENNIFER KNOX: Tuesday, October 4th, 7PM

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On Tuesday October 4th 7pm at Little Kings Club (downtown, 223 Hancock Avenue and corner of Hull Street) Vox Reading Series will host Danielle Pafunda, whose first collection Pretty Young Thing is just out from Soft Skull Press.  Her manuscript My Zorba was a recent finalist for UMass Press's Juniper Prize and Four Way Books's Levis Poetry Prize.  Her work appears in such publications as Best American Poetry, American Letters and Commentary, and Conjunctions.  She is co-editor of the online journal La Petite Zine and graduate assistant to The Georgia Review.

Joining her is visiting writer Shanna Compton whose book Down Spooky won the 2004 Winnow Press Open Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2005, Verse, McSweeney's, No Tell Motel, Court Green, Coconut, and elsewhere. She is an editor at large for LIT at New School University and the Associate Publisher of Soft Skull Press. She teaches poetry and publishing at Bowery Arts & Science and the New School.

Also joining her is visiting writer Jennifer Knox, author of A Gringo Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2005).  She attended the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa as an undergraduate, and received her MFA in poetry at New York University. She is co-curator of the Pete's Big Salmon poetry reading series and lives in Brooklyn with a husband, writer Sean McNally, and a cat, Tokyo Roy. Her poetry has also appeared in the anthologies The Best American Poetry (2003 and 1997), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Free Radicals: American Poets before Their First Books.

Honest Engine will play folksy-bluegrassy tunes after the reading! This event is free and open to the public, and books will be for sale!

TIM EARLEY and SABRINA ORAH MARK: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 7PM

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As part of the VOX READING SERIES, Tim Earley and Sabrina Orah Mark will be reading at Flicker.

Visiting writer TIM EARLEY will be reading from his first collection,Boondoggle, recently published by Main Street Rag. Tim Earley was born and raised in Western North Carolina. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama and the recipient of two Writing Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, his poems have appeared in Chicago Review, jubilat, DIAGRAM, Typo, Perihelion, Apocryphal Text, Southern Humanities Review, La Petite Zine, and the Green Mountains Review issue, Comedy in Contemporary American Poetry, among other journals. He lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

SABRINA ORAH MARK'S first collection, The Babies, won the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (selected by Jane Miller) and was recently published by Saturnalia Books.

VOX READING: WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7 at 7:00PM

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Kristen Iskandrian Connell, Anne-Christine Hoff, Christopher McDermott, Heather Matesich, Patrick Denker, and Sian Griffiths will be kicking off the first VOX reading of the semester at FLICKER THEATER on September 7th at 7PM.

Garrett Hongo to Read On Thursday, April 20, 4:30PM

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Award-winning author Garrett Hongo will read from his work. The event is sponsored by UGA’s Creative Writing Program and is free and open to the public. Hongo is the author of two books of poetry: The River of Heaven (1988), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Yellow Light (1982). His most recent book is Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Hongo edited Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993). His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon at Eugene, where he directed the program in creative writing from 1989 to 1993. 265 Park Hall.

Lisa Jarnot to Read on Wednesday, April 20, 4:30PM

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Poet Lisa Jarnot of New York City will give a reading. Jarnot teaches at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and at Bard College. Active in the community of the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church in the Bowery, she has edited The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New American Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997). Jarnot is the author of three collections of poetry: SOME OTHER KIND OF MISSION (Burning Deck, 1996), RING OF FIRE (Zoland Books, 2001, and Salt Publishers, 2003), and BLACK DOG SONGS (Flood Editions, 2003). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University of California Press. Free and open to the public, Jarnot's reading concludes this year's Lanier Series. Park Hall 261.

Wednesday, April 20th 7:30pm Vox Reading Series at Flicker

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On Wednesday, April 20th 7:30pm at Flicker Bar & Theater (on Washington St. near Pulaski), the Vox Reading Series will host visiting poet Oni Buchanan, author of _What Animal_ (University of Georgia Press), along with visiting poet John Woodward and the Creative Writing Program's own John Woods. This is our last Vox reading of the school year! Free and open to the public!

Judith Ortiz Cofer to Read on Sunday, April 17, 1:30PM

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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Franklin Professor of English and prize-winning author, will read from her latest book A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems at Borders on Alps Road. UGA's prolific and genre-blending author's other recent publications are: Call Me Maria, a young adult fiction, and The Meaning of Consuelo, a novel set in Puerto Rico. A book-signing follows the
reading.

Wednesday April 13th 7:30pm Vox Reading Series

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On Wednesday, April 13th 7:30pm at Flicker Bar & Theater (on Washington St. near Pulaski), the Vox Reading Series will host Creative Writing Program members Sian Griffiths, Kirsten Kaschock (Unfathoms, Slope Books 2004), and Danielle Pafunda (Pretty Young Thing, Soft Skull Press 2005), along with Creative Writing Program associate Jack Christian. Free and open to the public!

Sydney Lea to Read on Tuesday, April 12, 4:30PM

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Sydney Lea will read from his eighth volume of poetry, Ghost Pain, just
published by Sarabande Books, at 4:30 on April 12 in Park Hall 265. Founder
and for thirteen years editor of New England Review, Lea has also published
a novel, A Place in Mind, and two collections of nonfiction, Hunting the
Whole Way Home and A Little Wildness. His last book of poems, Pursuit of a Wound, was a Pulitzer finalist, and his To the Bone: New and Selected Poems was co-winner of the Poets' Prize. Recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations, Lea has taught at Yale, Wesleyan, the Vermont College MFA program, Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest), and Franklin College (Lugano, Switzerland). He lives in Vermont with his wife, attorney and mediator Robin Barone, and children. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College.

TWO-FOR-ONE POETS: Robert Dana & Rick Campbell to Read on Thursday, April 7, 4:00PM

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Poet Robert Dana, whose still-active writing career spans more than
fifty years, and who has studied and worked with many of the twentieth
century's literary giants, will read from his work at The University of
Georgia on Thursday, April 7, at 4:00 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall.
This event, open to the public free of charge, is sponsored by the
Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Georgia Review.

Rick Campbell, poet and longtime director of the Anhinga Press in
Tallahassee, will open for Dana, whose most recent poetry volumes have
been published by Anhinga: Morning of the Red Admirals (2004), Summer
(2000), and Hello, Stranger (1996).

Robert Dana's fifteen collections also include Yes, Everything
(1994) and What I Think I Know: New and Selected Poems (1991), both from
Another Chicago Press; Starting Out for the Difficult World (Harper and
Row, 1987); In A Fugitive Season (Windhover Press, 1979), and Some
Versions of Silence (W.W. Norton, 1967). He has also published A
Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1999)
and Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers (1986).

Born in Boston and reared in New England, Dana served in the South
Pacific during World War II and then earned degrees at Drake University
and the fledging Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. At Iowa,
Dana studied under Robert Lowell and John Berryman, and his classmates
included Philip Levine and W. D. Snodgrass. Dana then taught literature
and creative writing at Cornell College for forty years, retiring a
decade ago. During his time at Cornell, he restarted (in 1964) and
edited the then-defunct North American Review, the country's oldest
extant periodical (established in 1815). Dana's visiting teaching
appointments have included the University of Florida, Wayne State
University, and the University of Stockholm in Sweden. Dana's work has earned for him numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and the poet laureateship of Iowa.

Rick Campbell teaches at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
in Tallahassee in addition to overseeing Anhinga Press, which has been
publishing poetry for more than thirty years. Campbell's collections
include The Traveler's Companion (2004) and Setting the World in Order
(2001).

Contact: The Georgia Review (706-542-3481, garev@uga.edu)

Alice Notley to Read on Tuesday, April 5, 4:00PM

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The Lanier Series hosts Alice Notley, winner of Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) for Disobedience which, in the judge’s citation, “does what only the best poetry can do in times like these, surprise, denounce, dissent.” Author of more than 20 books of poetry, Notley’s other titles include The Descent of Alette, Mysteries of Small Houses, Alice Ordered Me To Be Made, and Waltzing Matilda. Paris-based Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the L.A. Times Book Award for Poetry. She edited and wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan's book The Sonnets. She was an important force in the second generation of the New York school of poetry. Tuesday, April 5 at 4 p.m., Park Hall 265.

For more on Notley, click here.

Jerome Rothenberg to Read on Monday, April 4, 4:00PM

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The Lanier Series hosts Jerome Rothenberg, author of over 70 books of poetry (Poems for the Game of Silence, That Dada Strain, A Book of Witness), editor of seven ground-breaking anthologies (Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, A Big Jewish Book, Poems for the Millennium), and numerous translations by Schwitters, Picasso, Enzensberger and others. He has also worked extensively in collaboration with visual artists and musicians. Rothenberg was the primary instigator of the ethnopoetics movement, and editor of its key journals Alchertinga and New Wilderness Letter. His work been translated extensively around the world. Rothenberg was elected to the World Academy of Poetry (UNESCO) in 2001. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA grant, the American Book Award and the PEN Literary Award. Monday, April 4, at 4 p.m., Park Hall 265.

Vox Reading Series Wednesday, March 23, 7:00pm Flicker Bar & Theater

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Go see Rae Armantrout read at Park Hall in the afternoon, and then come by Flicker Bar and Theater (on Washington Street, near the corner of Pulaski) in the evening for the Vox Reading Series "Experiments in Form." Creative Writing Program graduate students, undergrads, and recent grads will read from their own work and work of their favorite authors. A. C. Hoff, Dorine Preston, Amish Trevedi,Cannon Daughtrey, and Mark Leidner, with this month's host, Francis Clarke. Free!

Late Breaking! Chang-rae Lee Today, Tuesday March 22, 4:30pm in Room 265 of UGA's Park Hall!

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Novelist Change-rae Lee will read from his work on Tuesday,
March 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall.

Lee holds a degree in English from Yale University and a MFA
in writing from the University of Oregon. His first novel,
Native Speaker (1995), won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the
American Book Award and explores the life of a Korean-American
outsider who is involved in espionage. In 1999, he published
his second novel, A Gesture Life, which elaborated on his
themes of identity and assimilation through the narrative of
an elderly physician. His third novel, Aloft, was published
in 2004. He teaches in the creative writing program at
Princeton University.

Rae Armantrout to Read on Wednesday, March 23, 4:30 PM

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Rae Armantrout, Professor of Writing at the University of California San Diego, will give a reading, Wednesday, March 23, 4:30 p.m. in Room 261 Park Hall. Armantrout, the director of the New Writing Series at UCSD since 1989, is a founding member of the " Language Poetry" movement. She has authored eight volumes of poetry, most recently: UP TO SPEED (Wesleyan, 2004) and VEIL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (2001). Of the latter, Lyn Hejinian, says "Addressing domesticity, pedagogy, history, love, and nature, [Armantrout] discovers not epiphanies but dilemmas." According to Robert Creeley, Armantrout's poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." A WILD SALIENCE (Burning Deck) is a collection of critical writings on the work of Rae Armantrout. A Q/A and book signing follow the poetry reading.

Uses Without Objects presents A Night of Poetry, Wednesday, March 2nd, 7:00pm, at The Flicker Theatre & Bar

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When: Wednesday, March 2nd, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Flicker Theatre and Bar

Featured poets include:

Devon Brown

Jeff Fallif

J. Patrick Fadely

O. Bradley Bassler
O.B. Bassler studied literature and philosophy in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and took a second degree in Mathematics from Wesleyan University. He currently teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Georgia. He has recently completed a volume of poetry, The Plaster Years, and is at work on a second volume, In The House Of Black Spaniards.

Marjorie Agosin, Sunday, February 27th, 3pm, at Athens-Clarke County Public Library Auditorium

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WHEN: Sunday, February 27 at 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Athens-Clarke County Public Library Auditorium

Marjorie Agosin, internationally known for her work in human rights, poetry and memoir, will read from her new collection called "Poems to Josefina," a tribute to the life and times of her grandmother. Agosin also will read selections from "Cartographies," a book about travel real and imaginary published by the University of Georgia Press. Agosin has been on the faculty of Wellesley College since 1982, teaching courses in Spanish language and Latin American literature. She has
received numerous awards for human rights accomplishments and literary awards
given to Latino writers. She has written over 20 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays.

(Incomplete) List of Spring Events

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•Sunday, February 27: Marjorie Agosin 3pm at Athens-Clarke County Public Library

•Wednesday, March 23: Rae Armantrout (Lanier Series)

•Wednesday, March 23: Creative Writing Program Vox Reading Series 7:30pm at Flicker

•Monday, April 4: Jerome Rothenberg 4pm, Park Hall Room 265(Lanier Series)

•Tuesday, April 5: Alice Notley 4pm, Park Hall Room 265(Lanier Series)

•Thursday, April 7: Robert Dana (GA Poetry Circuit)

•Thursday, April 14: Simon Armitage 4pm, Park Hall Room 265 (CWP/Lanier Series)

•Wednesday, April 20: Oni Buchanan & John Woodward (VOX)

Dates TBA:
•Lisa Jarnot (Lanier Seies--Second week in April, date/time/location to come)

•Ben Friedlander (Lanier Series)

VOX Reading Series at Flicker, Wednesday, February 16, 7:30 PM

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Coming to you live from the heart of cold and flu season, your friendly representatives from the Creative Writing Program remind you to take your monthly dose of vitamin VOX. Please join us for an evening of poetry, fiction, lemon bars and literary shenanigans.

When: Wednesday, February 16th, 7:30 PM

Where: The Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.,
next to the 40-Watt Club)

Who: Jenn Blair, Jessica Bozek, and Kristen Iskandrian

What: Poetry and Fiction

What else? Homemade baked goods in exchange for your (voluntary) participation in our post-Valentine’s Day group therapy free-writing session, a.k.a. “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?” Trust us – you’ll feel better for it.

- Dorine Preston

Bin Ramke to Read, Monday, Feb. 14, 4:00PM

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Poet Bin Ramke will visit the University of Georgia campus and read from his work. Ramke has published eight books of poetry, most recently Matter (University of Iowa Press, 2004). His first book won the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Ramke teaches at the University of Denver and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is editor of Denver Quarterly and also edits the poetry series for the University of Georgia Press. His essays have appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Ohio Review, American Notes & Letters and Boston Review. Room 265 of Park Hall.

One Ring Zero to Perform, Monday, Feb 7 at 7:00PM

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Musical Performance & Book Signing. Barnes & Noble is pleased to bring lit-rock to Athens! Join us as New York band One Ring Zero performs an acoustic set featuring the lyrics from some of America's most prominent authors. The songs represent a collaborative effort between the band and an incredible line-up of authors that resulted in a CD and book, collectively titled 'As Smart As We Are: the Author Project' and includes prose by winners of the Booker Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. The band will perform songs tonight that were written by the likes of Dave Eggers, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Limony Snicket and Neil Gaiman. The performance is all on acoustic and percussion instruments. The book includes all the lyrics to the eighteen-song CD, commentary by all of the authors, and short essays by musicians such as Vernon Reid and David Byrne. "Kind of a cabaret They Might be Giants," says Neil Gaiman.

Graham Foust to read on Tuesday, February 1, 4:30PM

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Poet Graham Foust will read from his work tomorrow, 2/1 at 4:30 p.m. in 265 of Park Hall. Foust is the author of two volumes of poetry: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003) and Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta, 2003). A 2002 graduate of the Poetics Program at the University of Buffalo, he is now an Assistant Professor of English at Drake University. His poetry has appeared in Jacket, Lingo, Slope, and DC Poetry Anthology.

G. C. Waldrep to read on Friday, January 28, 4:30PM

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Poet G.C. Waldrep will read from his work. Waldrep is the author of two books: Southern Workers and the Search for Community (Illinois, 2000), winner of the Illinois Prize for History, and Goldbeaters Skin (Center for Literary Publishing, 2003), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Verse, Boston Review, and New American Writing. Waldrep has a Ph.D. in American History from Duke University and will graduate this spring with an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Friday, Jan. 28, 4:30 p.m. in Park Hall 265.

Vox Reading Series at Flicker Thursday January 27, 7:30pm

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Guest hosts of the University of Georgia Creative Writing Program's Vox Reading Series Jessica Bozek and Johannes Göransson bring Mark Bilbrey, Patrick Hargon and Lisa Hargon Smith to the stage. Take note; this reading is on a Thursday, rather than our usual, Wednesday.

Thursday, January 27th, 7:30pm
Flicker Theater & Bar(on Washington near the corner of Pulaski)
Free and open to the public!

Andrew Zawacki to read on 1/21

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Poet Andrew Zawacki will read from his work at 4:30 p.m. this Friday,
1/21 in Room 265 of Park Hall. He is the author of two volumes of
poetry, most recently Anabranch (Wesleyan University Press, 2004). His
previous book, By Reasons of Breakings (UGA Press, 2002), won the
Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Along with writing poetry and
criticism, Zawacki is a co-editor of Verse. A Rhodes Scholar,
Zawacki earned an M.Phil in Modern English Literature and Society from
the University of Oxford.

Nikki Giovanni to Read on 1/20

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Thursday, January 20: World-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, educator and all-around superstar Nikki Giovanni will deliver the annual Holmes/Hunter Lecture (which honors UGA's first African-American students, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Dr. Hamilton Holmes). Giovanni has won the NAACP Image Award three times, and was named "Woman of the Year" by Ebony, Mademoiselle and Ladies Home Journal magazines. She's one of the most entertaining speakers you'll hear. 2:00 PM. The Chapel.

(Incomplete) List of Spring Events

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January 20: Nikki Giovanni (CHA Visting Lecturer)
January 21: Andrew Zawacki (CWP)
January 28 (4pm): G. C. Waldrop (CWP)
January 28 (8pm): Beth Ann Fennelly & Chris Forhan (GA Poetry Circuit)
February 1: Graham Foust (CWP)
February 14: Bin Ramke (CWP/Lanier Series)
March 23: Rae Armantrout (Lanier Series)
April 4: Jerome Rothenberg (Lanier Series)
April 5: Alice Notley (Lanier Series)
April 7: Robert Dana (GA Poetry Circuit)
April 14: Simon Armitage (CWP/Lanier Series)
April 20: Oni Buchanan & John Woodward (VOX)

Dates TBA:
Lisa Jarnot (Lanier Seies)
Ben Friedlander (Lanier Series)

Fennelly & Forhan Reading on 1/28

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On Friday, January 28th , poets Chris Forhan and Beth Ann Fennelly will
read in Athens at Little Kings, 223 West Hancock Street (corner of
Hancock and Hull) beginning at 8:00 pm. Beer and wine will be served,
and books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Judy
Long of Byhalia Books. The reading is free of charge and open to the public.

Chris Forhan, a member of the Auburn University English Department
faculty, was awarded the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize for The
Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (2003). Receiving critical acclaim, the
book is described as “Often lit by a playful sense of humor and voice
that is truly engaging- [Forhan] creates a landscape that is both
intensely physical and filled with the age-old questions.” His first
book, Forgive Us Our Happiness, won the Bakeless Prize and was
published by the University Press of New England in 1999. He has also
published two chapbooks, x and Crumbs of Bread. His poetry has won a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, New
England Review, Parnassus, The Georgia Review, and other magazines.
He teaches both at Auburn University and in the Warren Wilson M.F.A.
Program.

Beth Ann Fennelly, who comes to Athens via the Georgia Poetry Circuit,
is from Chicago and received her MFA from the University of Arkansas.
She was the 1998-1999 Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of
Wisconsin, and has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and
the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in The
American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,
Shenandoah, The Georgia Review and TriQuarterly; they have been
anthologized in The Pushcart Prize 2001, The Penguin Book of the
Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, Poets of the New
Century, and The Best American Poetry 1996. Her first book, Open
House, published by Zoo Press, won The 2001 Kenyon Review Prize. Her
latest book, Tender Hooks, was published by W. W. Norton in March,
2004. Ms. Fennelly is an assistant professor of English at the
University of Mississippi and lives with her husband, the writer Tom
Franklin, and their daughter, Claire, in Oxford, Mississippi. Of Tender
Hooks, Lucinda Williams said "these poems read like little short
stories. Beth Ann Fennelly's perspective on motherhood is the boldest
I've ever witnessed. She explores areas openly that others only think
about in the privacy of their minds. Her poems are brave and beautiful."

This reading is sponsored by The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry
Circuit. For more information, contact David Ingle at 542-0397.