Mark Doty

The Northshire Poetry Reading Group will meet on Thursday, February 28th at 6pm in our conference room for a discussion of, The Best American Poetry 2012, by David Lehman and Mark Doty. There are so many fine poets to discuss from this collection - Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Paisley Rekdal, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Bruce Snider, and Larissa Szporluk, to name but a few. Please pick up your book and email Claire with a note on some of the poets you'd like to explore at February's meeting!

For more information on the Northshire Poetry Reading Group, please email revclairenorth@mac.com.

Location: Street: 4869 Main St Additional: City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Mark Doty; Cathy Park Hong; Galway Kinnell; Philip Levine; Jean Valentine; Elizabeth Willis

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century, wrote more than two dozen books of poetry and seven volumes of essays. A committed feminist and outspoken lesbian, Rich’s poetry brought together the political and the personal. Join Rich’s family, friends and fellow poets for an evening of readings and remembrance. She had “one of the authentic, unpredictable, urgent, essential voices of our time,” wrote W. S. Merwin. W.W. Norton & Company is publishing a posthumous collection, Later Poems: Selected and New 1971–2012, which will be available at the reading. This event is co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, W.W. Norton & Company, the Poetry Society of America and the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Free (to claim your free tickets, visit www.92y.org/readings (rmharris)… (more)

Tina Chang; Mark Doty; Cornelius Eady; Nick Flynn; Marie Howe; Major Jackson ; Michael Klein; Donna Masini ; Tom Sleigh

Help us celebrate the end of a joyous and program-packed 25th anniversary year with an event honoring our co-founders Stanley Kunitz and Elizabeth Kray. Join us at 12 noon for tours of two current exhibitions: Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archives, and A Poet’s Circle (curated by Jason Andrew), featuring paintings by Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell and Jack Tworkov, among many others. Then stay for a reading of The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz from start to finish. Sign up at the event to read one of Kunitz’s poems yourself! With thanks to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Admission free (rmharris)… (more)

MARK DOTY discusses Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems.; ACHY OBEJAS discusses Ruins.

(NOTE: Tickets $5.00 EA / FREE for Educators & Students) DESCRIPTION: Lambda Literary Award–winning authors Doty and Obejas will read from and discuss their latest work. Doty, the celebrated poet and memoirist, has written movingly on love and loss in modern gay life. Obejas, an esteemed Chicago-based journalist, novelist, and translator, writes about the tension between public identity and private experience in the United States and her native Cuba.

Both will address the question: how do writers grapple with questions of social, political, and cultural resonance surrounding the LGBTQ experience? C. C. Carter, Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Lesbian Poetry and director of community and culture for the Center on Halsted, will moderate.

Generously sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and presented in partnership with the Center on Halsted (bookjones)… (more)

Jim Newton; Scott Simon; Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Douglas Brinkley; Mark Doty; Dava Sobel; Francesca Lia Block; Ulin, David L.; Woods, Paula; Salter Reynolds, Susan

Please plan to join us at UCLA in April 2008 for the 28th annual presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. We'll carry forward a proud tradition that has honored A. Scott Berg, Ray Bradbury, Robert Caro, Joan Didion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gabriel García Márquez, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Haddon, Anthony Hecht, Seymour Hersh, Tony Hillerman, Christopher Isherwood, Ken Kesey, Milan Kundera, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Robert Littell, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen, Walker Percy, Ishmael Reed, Carl Sagan and W.G. Sebald, among many other authors. (claytonhowl)… (more)