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For more information on poetry readings, contact Becca Klaver, Assistant Programs Director, (312) 344-8819, rklaver@colum.edu
David Trinidad & Jeffrey Conway Poetry Reading, October 3, 2007
Rick Hilles & Jo McDougall Poetry Reading, November 14, 2007
Creative Nonfiction Week
Chicago Poetry Readings
David Trinidad & Jeffery Conway Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 5:30 PM
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
DAVID TRINIDAD's most recent book, The Late Show, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2007. With Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, he edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007). With Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, he co-wrote Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point, 2003), a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve. His other books include Answer Song (High Risk Books, 1994), Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991), Pavane (Sherwood Press, 1981), and Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000), a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. He edited Powerless (High Risk, 1996), the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and with Maxine Scates, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2001).
JEFFERY CONWAY's poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, such as The World, The Portable Lower East Side, B City, Brooklyn Review, The James White Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, MiPo, Court Green, and The Literary Review. His work can also be found in many anthologies, such as The Brink: Postmodern Poetry from 1965 to the Present; Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire; and Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. His books include Blood Poisoning (Cold Calm Press, 1995); Plush: Selected Poems of Sky Gilbert, Courtney McFarlane, Jeffery Conway, R.M. Vaughan, and David Trinidad (Coach House Press, 1995); and two collaborations with Lynn Crosbie and David Trinidad, Chain Chain Chain (Ignition Press, 2000) and Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point Press, 2003). His most recent collection, The Album That Changed My Life (Cold Calm Press, 2006), was a finalist for the 2007 Lambda Literary Award. He lives in New York City.
Rick Hilles & Jo McDougall Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 5:30 PM
624 S. Michigan Ave., 6th Floor
RICK HILLES' poetry collection, Brother Salvage, won the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from University of Pittsburgh Press, and was recently named the 2006 Foreword Magazine Poetry Book of the Year. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and Witness. He has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, the Halls Fellowship from Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and The Missouri Review’s Levis Editor’s Prize. In Fall 2007, he will be Writer in Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. He is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, the fiction writer Nancy Reisman.
JO MCDOUGALL is the author of five books of poetry, the latest two being Dirt and Satisfied With Havoc. She has won awards from the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony. Widely anthologized, her work has been adapted for film, theatre, and musical compositions. Towns Facing Railroads, an adaptation of her poetry, was staged at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in 2006. Her poems have appeared in Court Green, Hudson Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, MiPOesias, and New Letters, among others. She is a former co-director of creative writing at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. A native of Arkansas, she lives in Kansas City and is completing a memoir, Daddy's Money.
