POG presents

poets

Sherwin Bitsui & John Wright

Saturday, March 12, 7pm,

ORTSPACE

121 E. 7th Street

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

Admission: $5; Students $3

 Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation; he currently lives in Tucson. He is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan).  Bitsui holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, and, more recently, the 2002 University of Arizona Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Award.  His poems have appeared in such journals as American Poets, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), and Red Ink.  Shapeshift, his first book, was published by The University of Arizona Press as a Suntracks book in 2003.  For more see http://bitsui.mantaka.biz/bio.php.

John Wright’s poems and essays have appeared in a wide range of journals, from Mule to Chicago Review, whose current issue features both his interview with and memoir of poet Edward Dorn. A Westerner by inclination, he has lived in the Midwest, the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and along the western slope of Rue St. Georges in Paris and has taught at colleges, universities, secondary schools, and art schools here and abroad. He holds degrees from Principia College and the University of Chicago, and currently divides his time between Tucson and the canyons of Bisbee.

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

     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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