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SUMMARY:Katie Peterson and Ewa Chrusciel
DESCRIPTION:Katie Peterson Fog and Smoke\, was published by FSG\, 2024. Poems from the collection appeared in the Atlantic\, the New Republic\, the New York Review of Books\, and the Yale Review\, among other publications. Life in a Field (2021) is a collaboration with the photographer Young Suh. Other poetry books are: This One Tree (New Issues\, 2006)\, Permission (New Issues\, 2013)\, The Accounts (University of Chicago\, 2013)\, and A Piece of Good News (FSG\, 2019)\, finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, 2020. She’s editor of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell (FSG\, 2017). Her work has been translated into French\, Korean\, and Portuguese.  Awards and fellowships include the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas for The Accounts\, Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Katie is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Editor for the Phoenix Poets Series at the University of Chicago Press. \nEwa Chrusciel is a poet\, translator\, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours\, Purple Gallinule (Omnidawn 2022)\, Of Annunciations (Omnidawn 2017)\, Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn 2014)\, Strata (Emergency Press 2009\, reprinted by Omnidawn\, April 2018)\, as well as three books in Polish: Tobołek (2016) opiłki (2009)\, and Furkot (2003). Her book Contraband of Hoopoe was translated into Italian by Anna Aresi and came out in Italy with Edizioni Ensemble in May 2019. She’s translated Jack London\, Joseph Conrad\, and I.B. Singer as well as some contemporary American poets into Polish.  She is an associate professor of humanities at Colby-Sawyer College. Her website is http://www.echrusciel.net/.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/katie-peterson-and-ewa-chrusciel/
LOCATION:The Brick Church\, Harrisville\, 13 Canal Street\, Harrisville\, NH\, 03450\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Favorite Poem Event
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URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/the-favorite-poem-event/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Alice B. Fogel & Meg Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Loom celebrates its 5th year of bringing today’s best poets to the charming mill town of Harrisville\, NH\, welcoming two New Hampshire poets\, Alice B. Fogel\, former NH Poet Laureate with a brand new book Falsework\, and Meg Kearney\, All Morning the Crows.  \nPraise for Alice B. Fogel’s work\n“The marvelous specificities of her poems demonstrate a fierce and admirable passion . . . with a steadfast gaze at the natural world as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke’s panther.” \n­ —Publishers Weekly \n“Fogel’s perspective fascinates . . . has its own concrete effect on the heart.” \n —David Mehegan\, Boston Globe \n“To read Alice Fogel’s poems is to enter\, or rather to be drawn\, always toward an inner space. Every image\, every word unlocks a secret door into a farther room….Her poems shine with intelligence. Brooding and meditative\, Fogel is a poet alert to every nuance of the inner life\, a true phenomenologist of the soul in that New England tradition to which both Emily Dickinson and Jane Kenyon belong. She is one of the best poets we have.” \n —Charles Simic\, former US Poet Laureate \n Praise for Meg Kearney’s work\n“There is a subtle formal accomplishment in her poems that is often disguised by … the directness of her language.” \n —Keith Taylor in the The Massachusetts Review \n“This book goes well beyond a metaphoric treatment of birds and their habits. Instead\, their differing characteristics comprise a jumping-off point for a mythology of selfhood—a lens through which to examine and confront a personal history…. Untranslatable and mysterious as any mythology\, a various history of a changeable self accumulates in these inventive\, charged\, and often ecstatic poems. Meg Kearney’s poems both delight and complicate—” \n —Cleopatra Mathis\, author of After the Body and Book of Dog
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/alice-b-fogel-meg-kearney/
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SUMMARY:“Tiny Store Event” With Tin Fogdall
DESCRIPTION:May 15 6:30-8:30\n“Tiny Store Event”\nWith Tin Fogdall\nHarrisville General Store\n29 Church Street\nHarrisville\, NH 03450\nContact: John Knight\njmccknight@gmail.com
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/tiny-store-event-with-tin-fogdall/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:“Tiny Store Event”
DESCRIPTION:Coming in May. Date to be determined.  \nContact: John Knight\, jmccknight@gmail.com \n  \n 
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/tiny-store-event/
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SUMMARY:Rosa Lane & Jeffrey Levine
DESCRIPTION:The Loom celebrates its 5th year of bringing today’s best poets to the charming mill town of Harrisville NH\, welcoming poets Rosa Lane with a brand-new book\, Called Back\, and Jeffrey Levine\, At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered\, to read and discuss their work. \nPraise for Rosa Lane\n \nThe main conceit [of Called Back] is to imagine\, evoke\, and ‘call back’ to a new\, less-othered Emily Dickinson\, a 21st century Emily Dickinson more able to openly ‘swim / up the fish weir…spawn / in sandy silt along the odic / thighs of the Loire [to] flutter/our little deaths.’ This sexy book does not protest. It does not rant or shriek any grievance\, though God knows it has a right to…––Adrian Blevins \nWhat marvelous\, feral\, eccentric\, sweetly erotic poems! Like a candle in a frosted window\, they illuminate—with electrifying language—the shadows of human love.”—Henri Cole \n“Rosa Lane’s Called Back breaks through the membrane that separates us from Dickinson’s time. Here\, we enter Dickinson’s world brand-new\, with the vigor of research re-imagined\, obsession expressed with prolific inventiveness and mounting urgency\, and language that astonishes in its apt\, abundant\, and irresistible embrace of sound. This is a book fearless in its approach and lavish in its accomplishment.” —Rebecca Kaiser Gibson  \nPraise for Jeffery Levine \nAbout At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered \nJeffrey Levine’s poems hover and oscillate between moments in and out of time\, between states of being and nonbeing\, between the body and the body within the body.  “What is the imagination’s job but to blur one life into the next?”  Levine’s modus operandi is the process of osmosis and the seepage itself that moves\, “drop by rusty drop\,” through porous scrims. –– Salmon Press \n“Contemporary American poetry is not very concerned with such a blend of cosmic/domestic questions.  That is too bad.  ‘The best work\,’ Paul Valery kept telling us\, ‘is that which keeps its secret longest.’ Here\, the secret is both intimate and wide open.  The secret is to seek the others\, while joining the emotive and imaginative realm.  –– Ilya Kaminsky \nAbout Rumor of Cortez \n“Above all [these poems] are “charming” in the deep sense\, casting their spell over us\, dazzling us with antic gestures securely tethered to the heart.”  –– Gregory Orr \n“Levine shifts effortlessly among forms and voices to create a magical lyric that is visionary and funny\, compassionate and wise.” –– Carolyn Fort \nDownload Printable Program
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/rosa-lane-jeffrey-levine/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Poetry Playdate
DESCRIPTION:Weaving You Into the Poems you Read A Poetry Playdate at… \nThe Harrisville Library Saturday\, April 20 at 11:00 am \nYou may be surprised at the variety of ways you notice and appreciate design.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/poetry-playdate/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Derry Author Fest
DESCRIPTION:Derry Author Fest “What Isn’t Mentioned but Lurks” (2pm- 2:45)\nIn The Promise of a Normal Life \nContact: erinr@derrypl.org 603 432-6140
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/derry-author-fest/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Kayla Min Andrews about The Fetishist\, by Katherine Min
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URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/conversation-with-kayla-min-andrews-about-the-fetishist-by-katherine-min/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:Katie Farris is the author of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive\, Alice James Books\, 2023 and A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving\, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award.She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls\, (Marick Press\, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019)\, and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places\, 2017)\, and Mother Superior in Hell (Dancing Girl\, 2019). She is winner of poetry awards from Beloit Poetry Journal\, Fairy Tale Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and the Orison Anthology Prize in Fiction. Her work has appeared American Poetry Review\, Granta\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, and Poetry\, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the French\, Chinese\, and Russian\, including Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose. She graduated with an MFA from Brown University\, and is currently Associate Professor at Princeton University. \nIlya Kaminsky was born in Odessa\, former Soviet Union in 1977\, and arrived to the United States in 1993\, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press) and co-editor and co-translated many other books.  His poems have been translated into over twenty languages\, and his books are published in many countries\, including Turkey\, Netherlands\, Germany\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. In 2019\, Kaminsky was selected by BBC as “one of the 12 artists that changed the world.” Deaf Republic was named Best Book of the Year by NPR\, Washington Post\, New York Times Book Review\, Times Literary Supplement\, Publishers Weekly\, Financial Times\, The Guardian\, Irish Times\, Library Journal\, The Telegraph\, New Statesman\, Slate\, Vanity Fair\, Lithub\, Huffington Post\, The New York Public Library\, The American Library Association. He is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize\, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, National Jewish Book Award and Finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Book Award\, PEN/Jean Stein Award\, Kingsley Tufts Award\, Forward Prize (UK)\,  and the T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). \nIlya Kaminsky has worked as a law clerk for San Francisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. More recently\, he worked pro-bono as the Court Appointed Special Advocate for Orphaned Children in Southern California. He has held the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Now he is a professor at Princeton University. \nDownload Reading Program
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/katie-farris-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Meg Kearney and Richard Smith
DESCRIPTION:November 13\, 2022\nMeg Kearney\, author\,  most recently\, of All Morning the Crows\nwill read with Richard Smith\, author of Not a Soul but Us\nwinner of the 2021May Sarton Prize (judged by Meg)\n\nMore information coming soon.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/meg-kearney-and-richard-smith/
LOCATION:NH
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220918T163000
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SUMMARY:The Favorite Poem Event 2022
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 18 at 4:30PM\nWe’ll gather again to hear some of each others’ most beloved poems read and treasured by friends and neighbors.\nWe’ll meet at the recently renovated  “Brick Church” aka:\nThe Harrisville Community Church\n13 Canal Street\nHarrisville\, NH 03450
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/the-favorite-poem-event-2022/
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SUMMARY:Favorite Poem Submissions July 1 - 15
DESCRIPTION:The next Favorite Poem Project is planned for summer\, 2022\, somewhere beautiful in Harrisville. We are featuring people from Harrisville and surrounding villages\, plus Keene – to submit a favorite poem by some well-published poet\, (not yourself) with a statement about why that poem is particularly important to YOU.  We’ll prioritize people who’ve not yet had a chance to share a favorite poem with the community.  And we will choose 15 people to share.  Start thinking about what you’d choose…. Submissions will be accepted July 1 – July 15 2022.  We will send out reminders and an application form to everyone local on the Loom mailing list.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/favorite-poem-submissions-july-1-15/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Mariposa Museum in Peterborough\, NH\n \nThe April 2022 poet will be our own Rebecca Kaiser Gibson\, whose new book\, Girl as Birch will come out in early April. We are arranging a festive event\, probably at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough\, NH. She’ll be reading from the new book and in conversation with the Executive Director of the museum\, Karla Hostetler\, about the making of art.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/rebecca-kaiser-gibson/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Andrea Cohen\, Chard deNiord\, and Joan Houlihan
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 7\, 2021\, 4:30 pm\n \nLoom(Zoom) Event!\nZoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books\nhttps://www.toadbooks.com/event \n  \nFor more information contact:\nRebecca K. Gibson\, founder\, The Loom Rebeccagibson55@gmail.com \nAndrea Cohen ––“The poems in Everything are so short and sharply formed\, and so individually memorable\, that one is caught off guard by their cumulative force.  This is a work of great and sustained attention\, true intelligence\, and soul.”\n— Christian Wiman\, Survival Is a Style  (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2020) \nChard deNiord ––“The force that gives us meaning/is terrible\, bloody and sweet\,” writes Chard deNiord in his astonishing new book In My Unknowing. DeNiord is a true spiritual visionary…..[his] voice can be ecstatic or lacerated; it’s also funky\, humane\, topical\, grounded. The cloud of unknowing can waft from a fine cigar.”\n— D. Nurske\, Love in the Last Days\,  (Knopf Doubleday\, 2017) \nJoan Houlihan — “Critics compare her to Emily Dickinson….They each distill language and feeling to a crystalline state that never tells a lie.”\n–– Grace Caliveri\, Washington Independent Review of Books.  (on It Isn’t A Ghost If It Lives In Your Chest)
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/andrea-cohen-chard-deniord-and-joan-houlihan/
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SUMMARY:Major Jackson & Didi Jackson
DESCRIPTION:April 11\, 2021\, 4:30 pm\nSpecial Loom(Zoom) Event!\nOnline Admission is free\nZoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books\nwww.toadbooks.com/loomzoom \nTo attend this event\, please pre-register now. More information on registering can be found on the Toadstool Books website. \nMajor Jackson “At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable (fifth book of poems)\, The Absurd Man… Jackson observes wryly\, ‘Tragically\, he believes he can mend his wounds with his poetry.’ And in this everything hopeful\, elegant\, and unsettlingly absurd about The Absurd Man is spoken.  Jackson embraces the existential absurdity of this ‘tragedy’ and yet\, in doing so\, he gives us poems that dare to challenge hopelessness with language.” \n–– Kwame Dawes\, author of City of Bones (Northwest University Press\, 2017) \nDidi Jackson “gives poignant testimony to the sorrow\, rage and piercing clarity of grief… she bears radiant witness to the moment when bereavement gives way to new joy.  These poems are breathtaking and frank\, and they constitute a bridge into the regions of the inner life where words too often\nfail to reach.” \n –– Tracy K. Smith\, former poet laureate about Moon Jar (Red Hen Press\, 2020) by Didi Jackson \n 
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/major-jackson-didi-jackson/
LOCATION:NH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T183000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Prufer\, Angela Narciso Torres\, and Reginald Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Hot off the Press\, three poets with brand-new books from Four Way Books\n\nZoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books\nhttps://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom\n \nFor more information on the Loom\, contact rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. \n\nKevin Prufer\, The Art of Fiction \nIn this his eighth collection of poetry\, Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs\, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes\, often through personae\, a near future\, tracing the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding\, (whether it’s cogent or delusional.) Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized\, pervasive distrust.  \nAngela Narciso Torres\, What Happens Is Neither \n“What Happens Is Neither / the end nor the beginning. / Yet we’re wired to look for signs\,” offers the speaker of Angela Narciso Torres’s latest collection\, which approaches motherhood\, aging\, and mourning through a series of careful meditations. In poems set in two countries and homes\, Torres considers what it means to leave a mark\, vanish\, and stay in one place. In a profound act of recollection and preservation\, Torres shows us how to release part of ourselves but remain whole. \nReginald Gibbons\, Renditions  \nReginald Gibbons has eleven poetry collections. His selected poems in translation were published in Spain\, Italy\, and France. In Renditions\, Gibbons conducts an ensemble of voices\, using an international selection of writers as departure points for his translation/transformations. Renditions poses the idea that all writing is an act of translation\, “translating” observation into word\, or moving ideas from one language to another. The poems are imbued with a sense of homage\, allowing us to reimagine the borders of language and revel in the fellowship of idea sharing\, the “underthoughts that we can (all) sense:” desire\, love\, pain\, and fervor.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/kevin-prufer-angela-narciso-torres-and-reginald-gibbons/
LOCATION:NH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T163000
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SUMMARY:Special LoomZoom Event: Reginal Gibbons\, Angela Narciso Torres\, and Kevin Prufer
DESCRIPTION:Hot off the Press\, three poets with brand-new books from Four Way Books\, Co-hosted by Toadstool Books\n \nFor more information on the Loom\, contact rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. \nVisit http://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom to register for the LoomZoom event. \n\nKevin Prufer\, The Art of Fiction \nIn this his eighth collection of poetry\, Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs\, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes\, often through personae\, a near future\, tracing the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding\, (whether it’s cogent or delusional.) Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized\, pervasive distrust.  \nAngela Narciso Torres\, What Happens Is Neither \n“What Happens Is Neither / the end nor the beginning. / Yet we’re wired to look for signs\,” offers the speaker of Angela Narciso Torres’s latest collection\, which approaches motherhood\, aging\, and mourning through a series of careful meditations. In poems set in two countries and homes\, Torres considers what it means to leave a mark\, vanish\, and stay in one place. In a profound act of recollection and preservation\, Torres shows us how to release part of ourselves but remain whole. \nReginald Gibbons\, Renditions  \nReginald Gibbons has eleven poetry collections. His selected poems in translation were published in Spain\, Italy\, and France. In Renditions\, Gibbons conducts an ensemble of voices\, using an international selection of writers as departure points for his translation/transformations. Renditions poses the idea that all writing is an act of translation\, “translating” observation into word\, or moving ideas from one language to another. The poems are imbued with a sense of homage\, allowing us to reimagine the borders of language and revel in the fellowship of idea sharing\, the “underthoughts that we can (all) sense:” desire\, love\, pain\, and fervor.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/special-loomzoom-event-reginal-gibbons-angela-narciso-torres-and-kevin-prufer/
LOCATION:NH
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Militello & Chen Chen
DESCRIPTION:Online Admission is free\nZoom event hosted by Toadstool Books\nBooks can be purchased at www.toadbooks.com \nTo register for the Loomzoom event visit  http://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom. A Zoom link will be sent out to The Loom email list. If you want to add your name\, please email rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. \nDownload PDF of Event Flyer \n \nJennifer Militello\nAbout A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press\, 2016) \n“The stylistic richness Militello has wrought from such raw perceptive material is of a fascinating complexity and brilliance.She has taken the lessons of generations of poets and used them to inscribe a soul-progression we experience as deeply as we can stand to read.” \n– Colorado Review \n“This is a book of ecstatic revelations\, griefs and betrayals. Relationships and narratives are implied within a lyric framework. It has been a long time since I read a book of poems that seems less about meaning and more about sound… [Militello] stretches herself into new sound-shapes\, often employing a complicated scheme of rhymes and half-rhymes. Like Emily Dickinson\, one of her great forebears\, she likes to work in tiny containers…She is simply unafraid of the ecstatic… \n– North American Review\, Sean Thomas Dougherty \n“I generally think of what I myself bring to a poem: a desire to be transformed\, a desire to see anew\, a willingness to open myself to any possible combination of images or comparisons\, and of course a hope for that moment that is so exactly true and right that it leaves me breathless…” \n– Jennifer Militello\, Kenyon Review\, 2011 interview \nChen Chen\nAbout When I Grow Up\, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities –winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. (BOA Editions\, 2017): \n“The greatest achievement of this book is its singular and sustained voice\, poem after poem of a speaker whose obsessive and curious nature is that of an adult who refuses to give up seeing through the eyes of an adolescent\, one who believes that the world is a malleable place and that asking the right questions changes its form.…This is an astounding meeting of peace with empire\, of nature with technology and of the individual with the perception others have that he couldn’t possibly be individual at all.” \n– Jericho Brown\, The Tradition (Copper Canyon\, 2019)\, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. \n“Chen Chen shows us that the world is strange and bright with ardor.He reminds us of the miracle of the sensual and sensory.” \n– Aracelis Girmay\, the black maria (BOA Editions\, 2016) \n“I build my courses around encouraging and challenging students to become active members of a creative\, scholarly\, and compassionate community.” \n– Chen Chen\, on teaching
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SUMMARY:Major Jackson and Didi Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Details coming soon! Mark your calendars now.
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SUMMARY:2020 Favorite Poem Event
DESCRIPTION:It’s almost time to come together for the second year\, to hear about 15 favorite poems presented by members of the community. \nTo submit your favorite poem\, download the submission form now to get started. \nChoose a poem (not one written by you or a family member\, that’s the only rule\,) and talk about its significance to you\, personally. Send your submission in by FRIDAY\, Feb. 7\, 2020. \nYou can look up videos at www.favoritepoem.org for examples.
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/2020-favorite-poem-event/
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SUMMARY:Ellen Doré Watson  & George Kalogeris
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Doré Watson previous director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and named one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century” by the Library Journal has written five books of poetry and many translations from Portuguese. Robert Pinsky described her work as “interrogative\, tender\, wildly inventive.” Gerald Stern echoed\, writing “The poems are wild\, delirious…yet the (smart) organizing principle is this mind\, ever alert\, choosing and sorting.” Her most recent book is pray me stay eager (Alice James Books\, 2018) \nGeorge Kalogeris’ most recent book\, Guide to Greece \,(LSU 2019) was described as “At once boisterous\, ironic and tender” by Michael Putnam\, emeritus professor of classics\, Brown university.  “The poems fall on the ear and rest in the heart…with consummate ease.”
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/ellen-dore-watson-george-kalogeris/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Cohen & Maggie Dietz
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Cohen’s collections include Unfathoming (Four Way Books\, 2017)\, Furs Not Mine (Four Way\, 2015)\, Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry\, 2011)\, Long Division (Salmon Poetry\, 2009)\, and The Cartographer’s Vacation (Owl Creek Press\, 1999). Her new book\, Nightshade will appear this year from Four Way Books. \n…both gut-wrenching and paradoxically delightful about her work is the element of surprise; the poems feel effortless to the reader…The brevity of these poems allows the reader to devour them quickly\, only to pause and then go back\, and then go back again\, because their speed\nand clarity is deceptive…each is a complex system\, and Cohen\, with her perfect pitch\, pairs music with image. \nValerie Duff-Strautmann\, on Furs Not Mine \nMaggie Dietz: co-editor of American’s Favorite Poems\, Poems to Read and An Invitation to Poetry\, served as poetry editor at Slate. Her two collections Perennial Fall\, and That Kind of Happy are both from University of Chicago Press. \n…intimate\, idiomatic and thoroughly original\, Dietz’s lippy candor is invigorating in a wish-I’d-thought-of-that way\, and it’s a pleasure to be led through her world as she looks at familiar subjects with fresh eyes.” \nDavid Kirby in a 2006 New York Times review of Perennial Fall \nDownload PDF Event Flyer 
URL:http://theloompoetry.com/event/andrea-cohen-maggie-dietz/
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