POG
presents
poets
Rachel DuPlessis and Frances Sjoberg
Saturday, January 18, 7pm
Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Admission: $5; Students $3
Additional Event: Rachel DuPlessis will present a paper, "Manhood and its Poetic Projects: the construction of USA masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the 1950s,” on Friday, January 17, at 2pm, Modern Language room 451, at the university; this event is free and open to the public (for directions phone POG at 615-7803). (C0-sponsored by UA English & Arizona Quarterly.)
Rachel DuPlessis, Professor of English at Temple University, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and essayist. In 2001, she published two books: Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge, 2001), a work of literary criticism, and Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001), a collection of her long poems. Between 1980 and 1998, she published six other books of poetry and two chapbooks. DuPlessis is also the author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), both from Indiana University Press, and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990). She is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke University Press, 1990). DuPlessis has also published three coedited anthologies, reflecting her interests in feminism, gender issues in modernism, socially-inflected readings of poetry, and the poetics of contemporary poetry. These are The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics, with Peter Quartermain, from the University of Alabama Press (1999); The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation, with Ann Snitow, from Three Rivers/Crown (1998); and Signets: Reading H.D., with Susan Stanford Friedman, from the University of Wisconsin Press (1990). DuPlessis's work in poetry and in the essay form has been discussed in recent books by Lynn Keller, Burton Hatlen, Hank Lazer, and others. In 1990, DuPlessis held a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant for poetry, and in 1993, was honored by the Fund for Poetry. She received Temple University's Creative Achievement Award in 1999. In 2002, DuPlessis was awarded the third Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize, given biennially to an American poet/scholar who has made a significant lifetime contribution to American poetry and literary scholarship. In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for her work in poetry.
(excerpted from http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/duplessis/bio.html)
Frances Sjoberg was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1973. She received a B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1994 and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College in 2002. She serves as an ad-hoc member of the Board of Directors for Kore Press, a non-profit literary arts press. Her publications include poetry and critical writing in "spork," "Sonora Review," and "88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry." Currently, Sjoberg lives in Tucson where she organizes events and outreach programs for the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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. We also thank the following POG donors: Patrons Roberta Howard and Austin Publicover; Sponsors Barbara Allen, Chax Press, and Stefanie Marlis.
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