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P November 17 poets saturday november 17, 7pm poetry center, university of arizona in the poetry center library 1508 e. helen street (at helen & vine, one block north of speedway, one block west of cherry)
admission $5, students $3
Maureen Owen is the author of ten poetry titles, most recently
Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press. Her title American Rush:
Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work
AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before
Columbus American Book Award. Other books include Imaginary Income,
Zombie Notes, a brass choir approaches the burial ground, The
No-Travels Journal, and Untapped Maps. Her work has been included
in several anthologies including Moving Borders: Three Decades of
Innovative Writing By Women. She has taught numerous workshops and classes
in poetry and book production and her awards include grants from the
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry and a Poetry Fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served as program
coordinator at The St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York. She teaches courses
in Creative Writing and literary studies at Naropa University. She is also
editor for Naropa's on-line zine not enough night.
proclaimed
from GHOST SNOW FALLS THROUGH THE VOID by Tenney Nathanson now the birdcalls get tiny & everything glides away from dawn toward the business of day, variously intense tense funny lascivious slack cherubic or boinged or else dawn rolls away like a stage set behind or under it, disrobing the busier backdrop russet mantle clad etc. before it was I dunno like the immense rattle of a diffuse genius loci snake who meant no menace like Leslie says the comic book is calm because anyway everything was snake not the feeling David had when stepping on the dark snake in Brazil in sandals he said it felt like a baggie containing shit then it kind of whirred then bit that round bump on the ankle bone I don’t know what it’s called like he said an electric drill, then flopped off hard onto the dirt road and slithered off his leg then an intensely magnified stop that temple bell reverberator, receptacle or maybe powerstation it didn’t stop for days he didn’t die but whenever it rains his leg gets whacked by the cosmic densho cop hose slurs water into the mysteriously emptied spa hard not to mean the attendant air of privilege which is actually a whole lot more minimal than it sounds land of a thousand dependents matte green scrub up the hills toward the serious mountain goes washier green in the slanting down light but the oppresses like the heft of cathedral tunes has absconded leaving you face to face with save a ghost someplace on the other side the mountain is gleaming its gouche red rockface back at the sun, Catalina Glintorama being the proper term hi who I guess you ok gentle reader I initiate you into the diffusely bonging body boinging into roadside rabbit poised down now scampering stealthily into the brush now you’re a cactus pad feeling your spines because I said so apparently it’s allowed to be Whitmanian it’s all happening at the zoo intense dark green of the well-watered lady banksia climbing rose devouring entire west-facing plate glass pseudo second story window you’re blocking all my light good morning and it is not the light to the south where a single bird heads north in a liquid hurry picking up altitude then sliding from view I dedicate this morning business to the people of Iraq and to you whoever you are now I take your hand that you be my poem bong into the general only apparently intermittent vibration bzzzzzzz zzzzz zzzzz says other shore this shore for sure GA!
Poetry in Action 2007-08:
September 23 Michael Kelleher and Tyrone Williams
October 27
(co-sponsored by Chax Press)
and: 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:
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and (still) to 2006-2007 donors:
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