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Thursday 05/01/2008
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Art :: Poetry
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Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Sean Hill, Liz Bradfield
7:30 PM Stensrud Building
Description:
Poetry Reading With Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Sean Hill, and Liz Bradfield
Poets Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Sean Hill, and Liz Bradfield will read from their new books on Thursday, May 1st, at the Stensrud Building. Music from Cabinet of Natural Curiosities and Earl Grey Hot to follow.
More information about the poets:
Jasmine Dreame Wagner graduates from the MFA program at UMT-Missoula this spring. She has published poems in journals including Verse, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Seattle Review, North American Review, Columbia Review, and 32 Poems. A graduate of Columbia University, she was a writer-in-residence at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont. Her chapbook, "Charcoal," surveys and deconstructs the language and visual field of the American urban ruin from the remains of the 9/11 site and the Greenpoint Terminal Market fire to the eroded mines and mills of the former western frontier. "Charcoal" is coming out this spring in collaboration with printmaker Matthew Trygve Tung. Wagner also performs in the experimental folk collective Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
Elizabeth's book, Interpretive Work, is being released this month by Arktoi Books, a new imprint of Red Hen Press. Its poems concern themselves with the collisions of natural history, work, queerness, and family, reaching toward a moment where one finds "this unsettlement, / this beauty applauded at last."
Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection, had this to say about Interpretive Work: "In her marvelous debut collection, Elizabeth Bradfield probes the work of daily life, locating her speakers in family, intimate relationship, neighborhood, wilderness, and workplace.... These poems shimmer with asides, original tropes, self-deprecating wit and a scientist's passion for accuracy. Interpretive Work signals the arrival of an important new voice among us."
Elizabeth grew up in Tacoma, Washington, lived for a time on Cape Cod and in Alaska, and is currently perched in California. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, and Blackbird. She is also published in the anthologies Best New Poets 2006, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry. Liz has received fellowships from the Breadloaf Writer's Conference and the Vermont Studio Center and been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2007-2009 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.
Sean Hill's book, Blood Ties and Brown Liquor, is forthcoming this March from University of Georgia Press. The poems explore Hill's hometown, Milledgeville, Georgia, offering a portrait of the town's black community. A multitude of voices rises from the pages to celebrate familial love, memory, and yearning, and to confront racism.
Of it, Kevin Young, author of For the Confederate Dead writes, "Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop: these are among the select few whose first books signaled a new vision of form and vernacular, an everyday elegance. We can now add Sean Hill's transcendent debut to that remarkable list. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor is the real thing—a book to believe in."
Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin, and work-study scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear. He was recently awarded a Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Stensrud Building
Address: 314 N. 1st Street
Phone: N/A
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