POG presents

poets

Todd Baron & Geoff  Young

Saturday, February 26, 7pm,

ORTSPACE

121 E. 7th Street

(use entry on east side of building, at alley door)

Admission: $5; Students $3

Todd Baron is the author of Outside (avenue B Books), Tell (Texture Press), This. . . Seasonal Journal (Paradigm Press), Return Of The World (O Books), Partials  (e.g. press), Dark As A Hat (Abacus, Poets and Poets), That Looks At One And Speaks (Factory School) and tv eye (Chax) . In 1982 he co-founded Issue magazine, and in 1990 ReMap. He also helped found Littoral Books.  His work has appeared in various journals including Hambone, Sulphur, Apex of the M, Temblor, Acts, New American Writing, Mandorla, The Washington Review, RiBot and The Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Writing (1999). 

Geoff Young is the author of Solid Object, In XX Arrondissements, Mixed Doubles, Relativite du Printemps, Subject to Fits, Rocks and Deals, Cerulean Embankments, and Lights Out, and, with William Corbett, editor of a collection of essays in honor of James Schuyler, That Various Field.  He is the founding editor of the extraordinary poetry press The Figures.

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& coming up (please check back to confirm dates) . . .

     March 12: poets Sherwin Bitsui & John Wright

     April 2: poet Charles Bernstein

     April 30: poet/critic David Levi Strauss & poet Jason Zuzga

     May 7: poets Austin Publicover & Dlyn Fairfax Parra

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. 

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