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Contact: Michael Gregory 432-5374
Central School’s The Poets VoiceVisiting Poets Series 2002 - 2003 presentsFriday, March 28, at 7:30 PM, at Central School Project,43 Howell Ave., Old Bisbee,admission$6.00 ($4.00 for high school students) An informal reception follows the reading.
Fanny Howe in Poet’s Voice Series, Friday, March 28th at Central School Project
Fanny Howe will be this month’s Poets Voice series reader at Central School Project. Her reading starts at 7:30 pm, Friday, March 28th , in the Project’s renovated little theater at 43 Howell Ave., in Old Bisbee. An informal reception follows the reading.
Howe is the author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction and children’s literature. Her most recent publication, Dawn, has just been released by the University of California Press, which three years ago also published her Selected Poems.
Born in Buffalo, New York in 1940, Howe has been the recipient of many writing awards, including the National Poetry Foundation Award in 2001, the Lenore Marshall Award for poetry and Pushcart Prize for fiction in 2000, and the American Book Award for fiction in 1999. She has traveled extensively, including to Ireland, her mother’s birthplace, and many of her poems reflect the physical and political landscapes she encountered there.
Albert Gelpi of Stanford University has written that “Fanny Howe is the closest thing to Emily Dickinson since Dickinson herself.” Her work is widely regarded as testimony to an intense spiritual quest, allied with but not entirely within the traditions of Roman Catholic mysticism. Unlike “most religious poetry,“ which, as Norman Fischer, co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, says, “stands on faith, Howe’s work begins and ends with questions, an immense interiority in the shape of he world itself.”
Poet Michael Palmer also remarks on her spiritual project, noting that in “her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit, her work displays. . .a political urgency. . . a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis.”
From 1987-2001, Howe was Professor of Writing and American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Before that she was Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College, Associate Director of the University of California Study Center in London, England. Prior to those engagements, she taught fiction and Poetry at MIT, Columbia Yale and Harvard.
For more information, call Central School Project at 432-5374.
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