2009-2010 Reading Series
All readings free and open to the public.
For more info contact Kevin Craft
425-388-9395 or kcraft@everettcc.edu
Monday, April 26, 2010
3 Poets Reading for Poetry Northwest
David Biespiel, Kary Wayson, Jason Whitmarsh
Join us for two special events celebrating the arrival of Poetry Northwest at Everett Community College.
Panel: Writers on Writing
12:30-1:30 pm
Gray Wolf Hall 166-168
Everett Community College
Poetry Northwest editor Kevin Craft will moderate a panel on the practice of poetry, featuring three prize-winning poets living in the Pacific Northwest. Open discussion, plus audience Q&A.
Reading & Celebration
2-3 pm
Russell Day Gallery
Parks Union Building
Everett Community College
Biespiel, Wayson, and Whitmarsh read from their prize-winning books.
The Magazine: Poetry Northwest has been a mainstay of the national literary scene since its inception in 1959. Published for most of that time at the University of Washington, and more recently at the Attic Writers’ Workshop in Portland, in Spring 2010 Poetry Northwest joins the Written Arts program at EvCC. Students in the Written Arts and Graphic Arts programs will have an opportunity to work as interns on a professional magazine of national prestige.
The Poets:
David Biespiel is the author of three books: Shattering Air, Wild Civility, and The Book of Men and Women. A new book, A Thousand Faces, is forthcoming later this year. He edited Long Journey, an anthology of northwest poets, and was for five years editor of Poetry Northwest.
Kary Wayson’s first book, American Husband, won the 2009 Ohio State University Press/ The
Journal Award. Her awards also include a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and appearances in The Best American Poetry 2007 and the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology.
Jason Whitmarsh’s first book, Tomorrow’s Living Room, won the 2009 May Swenson Poetry Award from Utah State University Press. His poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac, and in such journals as Ploughshares and Poetry Northwest.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Langdon Cook and Martha Silano
Russell Day Gallery
Parks Union Building
Everett Community College
Special Reading: A Marriage of Naturalist Nonfiction & Poetry
Langdon Cook was a senior book editor at Amazon.com until he left the corporate world in 2004 to live in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son. Now a freelance writer and blogger, he has written for Gray's Sporting Journal, Outside, Fly Fisherman, Northwest Palate, The Stranger, Seattle Metropolitan, and numerous other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Washington's MFA program and a recipient of PEN Northwest's Margery Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. He lives in Seattle, WA.
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Martha Silano is the author of two poetry collections, Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books 2006), and What the Truth Tastes Like, winner of the William & Kingman Page poetry book award and published by Nightshade Press in 1999. Her poems have been widely anthologized, and were recently selected by David Wagoner for inclusion in the Best American Poetry 2009. She is a graduate of the University of Washington's MFA program and a recipient of PEN Northwest's Margery Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. She lives in Seattle and teaches English at Bellevue College.
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Monday, November 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Carrie Olivia Adams and Stacey Levine
Russell Day Gallery
Parks Union Building
Carrie Olivia Adams works in publishing in Chicago, where she is also Poetry Editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and criticism have appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, Cranky, Mare Nostrum, No Tell Motel and Verse. Her first full-length collection, Intervening Absence, was published in March 2009 by Ahsahta Press. The poems in this collection “delve into a place defined by air and sky, each movement another scene of a movie re-filmed many times over.”
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Stacey Levine is the author of My Horse and Other Stories (PEN/West Fiction Award, 1994) and the novels Dra-- and Francis Johnson (finalist, Washington State Book Award, 2005.) Her short story collection, The Girl With Brown Fur will be published in 2009.
A Puschcart Prize nominee, her fiction has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Fence, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, The Washington Review, The Santa Monica Review, Yeti, and other venues. She has also contributed to the American Book Review, Bookforum, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fodor's City Guides, The Stranger, The Chicago Reader, and other Publications.
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