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Events, Fall 2009
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Events, Fall 2009

All events are free and open to the public

For more information on poetry readings, contact Nicole Wilson, Assistant Programs Director, (312) 369-8819, nwilson@colum.edu

9 Sept: Don Share & Emily Warn
16 Sept: Lenelle Moise
7 Oct: Catherine Bowman
21 Oct: Karen Kukil
18 Nov: Cecily Parks & Sandra Lim

Don ShareDon Share & Emily Warn
Wednesday, September 9, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall,
1014 South Michigan Avenue

DON SHARE is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and Curator of Poetry at Harvard University. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca in English (Penguin Classics), and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems (forthcoming, Faber and Faber). His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán Prize, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award. He received his Ph.D. from the Editorial Institute at Boston University.


Emily WarnEMILY WARN is a poet, essayist, teacher, and technologist who most recently served as founding editor of poetryfoundation.org.  Born in San Francisco and raised in Michigan, she is the author of three books of poetry: The Leaf Path (1982), The Novice Insomniac (1996) and Shadow Architect (2008). Her essays and poems appear widely, including in Poetry, BookForum, Blackbird, Parabola, The Seattle Times, and The Writers’ Almanac. She taught creative writing at Lynchburg College and The Bush School, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She currently divides her time between Seattle and Twisp, Washington. 

 


Lenelle MoiseLenelle Moise One-Woman Show: “Womb-Words, Thirsting”
Wednesday, September 16, 7:00pm
Music Center Concert Hall,
1014 South Michigan Avenue

Hailed as “a tour de force” and “a masterful performer”, Haitian-American artist-activist Lenelle Moise brings us WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING, an interactive performance of patchwork poetic storytelling delivered, slam-style, from the gut. Through a mix of womanist Vodou jazz, queer theory hip-hop, spoken word, song and movement, Lenelle Moise re-conceives memory, dances revolution, reclaims F-words and boldly speaks out about growing up immigrant, working-class, politicized and queer. Presented by the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community in partnership with the Institute, and co-sponsored by African American Cultural Affairs, Center for Teaching Excellence and the English Department. A reception and Q&A will follow, moderated by award-winning performance artist, sharon bridgforth.


Catherine BowmanCatherine Bowman
Wednesday, October 7, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall,
1014 South Michigan Avenue

CATHERINE BOWMAN was born in El Paso, Texas. She is the author of the poetry collections The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Frost Tufts Prize. She is the editor of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, and have been selected for six editions of The Best American Poetry anthology.  She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington.

 

Plath in Yorkshire - Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith CollegeKaren Kukil Lecture: “Sylvia Plath's Women and Poetry”
Wednesday, October 21, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall,
1014 South Michigan Avenue

Image: Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire (PHOTO CREDIT: Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)

Karen KukilKAREN V. KUKIL is Associate Curator of Special Collections at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. For the past sixteen years, Ms. Kukil has supervised the scholarly use of the Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf collections in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College, where she has made the rare book and manuscript collections accessible to undergraduates through lectures and exhibitions. A popular interterm course taught by Ms. Kukil requires students to examine and edit variant drafts of Plath’s Ariel poems, which are also part of the college’s extensive Sylvia Plath Collection.


 


Sandra LimSandra Lim & Cecily Parks
Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater, 600 South Michigan

SANDRA LIM’s first book, Loveliest Grotesque, was published in 2006 by Kore Press. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Fellowship, and a 2006 Pushcart Prize nomination. Lim earned her BA at Stanford University, a PhD at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught at UC Berkeley, the University of Iowa, and Saint Mary’s College of California, and is the 2009-2010 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College.

Cecily ParksCECILY PARKS’s first book of poems, Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series, 2008), was a finalist for the Norma Farber Prize and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Emerging Writers Prize.  Her poems and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Octopus, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.  She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York and teaches in the undergraduate creative writing department at Columbia University.