September 26 , 2009
POG Directors Group Reading PDF Flyer
September 26, 2009 - POG Board of Directors Group Reading - 7 PM, The Drawing Studio, 33 S. Sixth Avenue, Tucson (map). The members of the POG Board of Directors present their work in what promises to be an electric evening of poetry, art, and performance!
Directors performing September 26:
Charles Alexander is founder/director of Chax Press, publisher of innovative poetry and book arts editions. His books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light / Dark Matter, Near or Random Acts, and Certain Slants, as well as several chapbooks. His honors include the Arizona Arts Award and two Fund for Poetry Awards. He shares a studio and life with Tucson visual artist Cynthia Miller. Lately he has been lost (or found) somewhere among the poetic waters of Ludovico Ariosto, Walter Ralegh and David Jones. He'll surface sometime soon.
Sue Carnahan lives and writes in southeast Arizona. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts and a Masters in Science from the University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, Word For/ Word, can we have our ball back? and elsewhere. A chapbook, Auto Repair, won the Weldon Kees Award and was published by The Backwaters Press. Sue works as a speech-language pathologist.
Barbara Henning is the author of several books of poetry, the most recent My Autobiography (United Artists 2007), and three novels, the most recent Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVOX 2009) . A collection of prose and poetry, Cities & Memory, is forthcoming from Chax Press. A native Detroiter and long time resident of New York City, she now lives in Tucson.
Jake Levine is a furry subspecies of the elephant seal found in the tropics - eats kiwis, cocktail onions, and strawberry daiquiris also known as the swimming koala or flying marsupial which cannot fly but swim very slowly is not really a marsupial at all likes daughters the soft underarms of fat women loose skin and uni-brows its only natural known enemy is the platypus is rumored to sleep on the strangest of stranger's couches is not aggressive by nature but will talk too much when given whiskey enjoys the occasional soy latte will not touch bacon or mothers of children.
Tony Luebbermann serves on the boards of Chax Press, POG, and the Tucson Poetry Festival. He is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He holds degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University and the University of Arizona. Tony is the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Volunteer Coordinator and a member of the Center’s Development Committee and the College of Humanities Advisory Board.
Cynthia Miller has been a teaching artist for over twenty-five years. She maintains a studio in downtown Tucson shared with husband, poet Charles Alexander and Chax Press. She has work in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson International Airport, The Getty Museum, and private collections. Besides painting, other works include album cover design, stage props for modern dance company, logo, poster, and illustration graphics, sculptural installations,and book arts collaborations with Chax Press. Recent Exhibition: Cue Art Foundation, NY,NY, Spring 2008.
Tenney Nathanson is the author of the book-length poem Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005), the collection Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005), and the critical study Whitman’s Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU, 1992). He is currently at work on a book-length poem, Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Globalization), and a critical study of contemporary American "formally innovative" poetry (sometimes post-fordist, sometimes Buddhist, sometimes not). He lives in Tucson, where he directs the PhD program in Literature and teaches American poetry and, from time to time, creative writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona.
Frank Parker is the author of two books of poetry, Heart ShapedBlossoms (1993-2007) and zig-zag journeys (2009), both from Obscure Press. He edits the online journal Frank's Home: An Active Anthology of Verse and publishes widely on the web. He is the sound technician for POG and Chax Press readings and maintains the web sites of POG and POG Sound. He thinks Jake Levine is the cat's meow but, Jake, you better run, the cat is looking for his voice.
