March 30

poets

Julie Carr

and

Frances Sjoberg

Sunday, March 30, 4pm 

The Drawing Studio, 33 S. 6th Ave., Tucson

$5 general admission / $3 student admission

Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion, which one the University of
Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Prize in 2004, and Equivocal, out from Alice
James Books this year. Her poems have been published in journals such as Volt,
Verse, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Iowa Review,
Boston Review, and American Letters and Commentary. She also has poems in
the anthologies Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books), and Best American Poetry
2007. She is the co-publisher, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press and
teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Frances Sjoberg collects her poems in an ever-shifting repository, Slipknot.

Her work has been published in Spork, Forklift, Ohio; Pom2; River City, Alaska

Quarterly, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the Fund for Poetry

and the Wurlitzer Foundation for her creative work and, in 2007,

a Tucson Business Edge 40 Under 40 award for her

professional and community efforts. She currently works for the

University of Arizona Poetry Center and serves on the advisory board

for the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund.� Next fall, she will begin to

study law.

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Julie Carr, “Poem”

POEM POEM


Plexiglas cloudscape and maniacal sweat

whom dalliance makes

You insects running in rows on snow

who serves severe


I’m hand to be wooed to be wooded soon

Enter my minions, my many-featured hopes

I’m falter-moon flashing then faded then hid

looking for signals in apples and pears

defeated but breathing like Adam or a worm

my deliverance is bleakness of dumpsters at noon


You whiteness and blackness you yearned-after vogue

store laughter like fat in the folds of my soul

My syntax is taxing raised as it’s paid

Across concrete step the sleeping dog lays

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Frances Sjoberg, “Out of Error”

Smitten rock with streaming side, with

scales

stripped back to pink and tender, the cur

heart's fret, quivers in balance.

Poetry in Action 2007-08:

September 23

Michael Kelleher and Tyrone Williams

October 27
David Gitin and Frank Parker

November 17
Maureen Owen and Tenney Nathanson

February 2  Pierre Joris and Cynthia Miller

(co-sponsored by Chax Press)

February 16 Rodrigo Toscano and TC Tolbert

March 15
Beverly Dahlen and Charles Alexander

April 12
Lewis Warsh and Paul Klinger

May 3
Leslie Scalapino and Matt Rotando

and:

November 2-5 2008
Norman Fischer (poetry reading, talk, meditation workshop)

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. 

POG is also grateful to 2007-2008 donors and programming partners:

Patrons Gail Browne & Frances Sjoberg, Barbara Henning, Paul Klinger, and Boyer Rickel

We're also grateful to hosts and programming partners

Casa Libre en La Solana Inn & Guest House

for further information contact

POG: 615-7803, pog@gopog.org

This page last modified March 17, 2008.