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RICHARD KATROVAS
ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING
 

Saturday

April 21st at 8 pm
 

Dinnerware Gallery

6th Street at 9th Avenue

(enter from the 9th Ave. side of the building)

 
Admission $5; Students $3

Richard Katrovas's visit

is co-sponsored by

The University of Arizona College of Humanities

RICHARD KATROVAS is a poet, memoirist and editor. He is the author of a novel, The Mystic Pig, and six books of poetry, including Green Dragons, winner of the Wesleyan University Press New Poets Series. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Katrovas is the founding academic director of the Prague Summer Program. As a guest editor of the New Orleans Review, he edited an anthology of contemporary Czech poetry, Ten Years After the Velvet Revolution. His latest book is an anecdotal memoir, The Years of Smashing Bricks. Katrovas lives in Michigan and teaches at Western Michigan University.

ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING is the author of the poetry collections Science and Other Poems, selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, and Genius Loci.  She has also published three nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands, The Edges Of The Civilized World, and Writing the Sacred into The Real as well as several edited collections and chapbooks. She teaches creative writing as a Professor of English at the University of Arizona.

POETRY IN ACTION

Spring 2007

February 24: poet Alice Notley

March 17: poets  Cynthia Hogue and Brent Cunningham

March 31: poet Harryette Mullen (this event will begin at 5pm); Harryette Mullen will also present a paper Saturday morning as part of the Arizona Quarterly Annual Symposium)

April 7: poets Hoa Nguyen and Rodney Phillips

April 21: poets Richard Katrovas and Alison Deming

Harryette Mullen's appearance co-sponsored by The Arizona Quarterly, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Chax Press

Alice Notley's appearance co-sponsored by The University of Arizona Poetry Center and Chax Press

Richard Katrovas's appearance co-sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Humanities

Fall 2006:

October 14: poets Elizabeth Robinson, Jaime Robles, Susanne Dyckman, Michelle Auerbach, Catherine Wagner (these writers will also be presenting papers at the Rocky Mountain MLA Convention in Tucson)

October 22: poet Linh Dinh

November 18: poet Sheila Murphy and poet/artist Barbara Henning

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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