WordTemple Poetry Series
at COPPERFIELD'S BOOKS Santa Rosa, California
FALL 2008 READINGS -- 7:00 p.m. at Copperfield's Books in Santa Rosa, California
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Lee Slonimsky and Julia Levine Lee Slonimsky's books are TALK BETWEEN LEAF AND SKIN (2002), PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE (2007), and the forthcoming LOGICIAN OF THE WIND (2011). He is a socially conscious hedge fund manager whose work with numbers led him to the meter and rhythm of his Pythagorean sonnets. Pythagoras's biography (he was the leader of an Animal Rights party in Magna Graecia 2500 years ago) has led Lee to become a public proponent of the same cause, including an address to the 2008 National Animal Rights Conference in Virginia. Of his first book, the poet Vivien Shipley wrote, "the poems glow, shift and blaze in turn as they yield a vision of history, of the universe that surges with a passion for being, for a life lived fully." Of the PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE, poet X. J. Kennedy has written, "his work strikes me as unique in current American poetry." Julia Levine has received numerous awards and grants in poetry, including the Anhinga Prize for Poetry and a bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first book, Practicing for Heaven, the Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, for her second collection, Ask, the Discovery/the Nation Award for Emerging New writers, and the Pablo Neruda Prize in poetry. Her most recent book, Ditch-tender, was released this past winter from University of Tampa press. She received her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, and currently lives and works in Davis.
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Mike Tuggle, Sarah Maclay and Jessica Fisher Mike Tuggle, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, reads from his collection Absolute Elsewhere (Philos Press) and other poems. Tuggle is the host of the Snake River Poetry Series in Duncans Mills and the winner of several prizes, including The Oberon Prize and a Sonoma Community Foundation Grant. Sarah Maclay is the author of The White Bride (University of Tampa Press, 2008) and Whore (Tampa Review Prize for Poetry), as well as three limited edition chapbooks: Shadow of Light (Inevitable Press), Ice from the Belly (Far Star Fire) and Weeding the Duchess (Black Stone Press). Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in APR, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Writers' Chronicle, Ninth Letter, Pool, Swink, The Laurel Review, The Journal, lyric, Hotel Amerika, ZYZZYVA, Solo, The Los Angeles Review, Washington Square, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain and numerous other spots including Poetry International, where she serves as book review editor. Jessica Fisher’s first book, Frail-Craft, won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Together with Robert Hass, she edited The Addison Street Anthology (Heyday Books, 2004). Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in such journals as The Believer, The Colorado Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The ThreePenny Review, and TriQuarterly. She lives in Oakland with her husband and daughter, and is currently completing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley. | ||
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Michael Rothenberg celebrates The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen Michael Rothenberg, editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, celebrates the publication of the book by Wesleyan Press. Philip Whalen, was a poet and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat generation. Michael McClure says "Whalen's poetry is gentle consciousness combined with the ability to be outspoken, outrageous and entertaining. He is an original founder of the Beats and an erudite poet-scholar who received Zen lineage and became a deep teacher of his companions, readers, and the future." Reading with Rothenberg tonight will be Clark Coolidge, David Bromige, Pat Nolan and others.
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August Kleinzahler and Elizabeth Bradfield August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of ten books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize. Tonight he reads from Sleeping It Off In Rapid City -- Poems, New and Selected (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008), a book that gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers and experiment with form and length. "Erudite, restless, intellectually curious. alert to what goes on around him from the moment he opens his eyes in the morning, [Kleinzahler] brings to mind Frank O'Hara...Wonderful." -- Charles Simic. Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008) and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org), a virtual, grassroots press that harnesses the tradition of the broadside. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, several anthologies, and are forthcoming in Ploughshares and Orion. A recent transplant from Alaska, she is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. When not writing, she works as a naturalist.
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