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Come one, Come ALL!

to a POG Special Event

PICNIC POT LUCK Fundraiser!

Bring winter drink and/or dish to share

and bring $10 for POG!!! (larger amounts are welcome, too!)

Featuring FLASH LECTURES no more than 6 minutes long!
mood lighting! your friends! good times! great conversation!

Lectures already scheduled by Samuel Ace, Kristi Maxwell, Matthew Conley,
Charles Alexander, Wendy Burk, Morgan Schuldt, and MORE! --
YOU are invited to sign up to lecture!
on ANY topic
(poetry, poetics, economics, French new wave plumbing, international relations,
tidepools of the south, Kim Jong Il, Republican Progressivism,
the history of llamas, etc. ad infinitum . . .)

JANUARY 28, 7:00pm, at The Drawing Studio 33 S. 6th Avenue, Tucson
Call 520-275-4330 or email email chax@theriver.com to sign up or if you have questions!

Please help support POG in this winter event,

help us make it through the night, the poems, the year, the life!

and join us at the POG event
on Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7pm,
at The Drawing Studio, 33 S. 6th Ave, Tucson.
It is a poetry reading featuring

Jamison Crabtree & Myung Mi Kim!

$5 general admission.

IN ADDITION: 
The reading will also be preceded a week earlier, Sat. Feb. 11 at 2pm,
by a free POG Session featuring the work of these two poets,
at Espresso Arts Cafe, 942 E University Blvd (upstairs); see gopog.org for details.

Myung Mi Kim  Poet, born in Seoul, Korea. Notable post-modern poetry books include Under Flag, 1991, The Bounty, 1996, Dura, 1999, and Spelt, 2000. Featured in Building is a Process/Light is an Element: Essays and Excursions for Myung Mi Kim by Richard Cross and Andrew Rippem.Kim teaches at the State Univ of New York, Buffalo.

A native Virginian, Jamison Crabtree came to Tucson to study poetry at the U of A and returned because of the city’s vibrant literary culture, volunteering at the UA Poetry Center, editing poetry for Spork Press, and serving on the POG board of directors. His poetry appears in LIT, PANK, Handsome, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets 2009, elimae, No Tell Motel, Makeout Creek, and more. Recent/current projects include a book of laments inspired by unlamentable subjects, specifically movie monsters, and a book-length poem inspired by the American landscape and fairytales. He is currently a Black Mountain Institute PhD fellow in English at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

The POG web site is currently in transition from one webmaster to another.

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from Poets & Writers, 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. 

POG is also grateful to our generous donors:

Patrons: Charles Alexander & Cynthia Miller, Renée Angle, Roberto Bedoya, W. and R. Bernheimer Family Foundation, Laynie Browne, Sue Carnahan, Chax Press, Alison Deming, Allison Dushane, Barbara Henning, John Hudak, Paul Klinger, Tony Luebbermann, Ken McAllister, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Ander Monson, Sheila Murphy, Tenney Nathanson & Lynda Zwinger, Rodney Phillips, Siri Phillips, Frances Sjoberg, Lusia Slomkowska

Sponsors: Samuel Ace, Tom & Lisa Cooper Anderson, Gail Browne, Carlos Gallego, Anne Marie Hall, Jason Lagapa, Jami Macarty, Tim Peterson, Boyer Rickel, Steve Salmoni, Jesse Seldess, Christina Smith & Joel Arthur, Tyrone Williams, and Anonymous

POG strives to make all events and venues accessible to persons with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations may be provided upon request with two weeks notice.

For further information contact POG: (520) 615-7803, pog@gopog.org http://www.gopog.org