Fall 2007 Reading Series
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The From the Fishouse reading series is generously supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Residential Life and Academic Affairs Offices at Bowdoin College.
Gregory Pardlo & Gabriel Welsch: Thursday, September 6, 2007
7:30 p.m., Bowdoin College, Donald B. MacMillan House, 5 McKeen Street, Brunswick, MaineGregory Pardlo is a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in poetry and has received fellowships from The New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Seaside Institute, and Cave Canem, and has been Visiting Emerging Poet at Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, Va. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in Calalloo, Lyric, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Volt, Black Issues Book Review, and on National Public Radio. He is the recipient of the Lotos Club Foundation Award for Creative Writing and his volume of translations from the Danish poet Niels Lyngsoe, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace, was published in 2004. His first book of poetry, Totem (American Poetry Review, September 2007), was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the 2007 American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize. He is Assistant Professor of English at Medgar Evers College, CUNY.
Sebastian Matthews: Friday, September 14, 2007
7:00 p.m., Bowdoin College, Schwartz Outdoor Leadershp Center, Junction of College St. Harpswell Road, Brunswick, MaineSebastian Matthews, a graduate of the University of Michigan’s MFA program, teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. He is the author of the memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and co-editor, with Stanley Plumly, of Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, Post Road, Seneca Review, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Matthews was a recent Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf. His chapbook, Coming to Flood, was published by Hollyridge Press in 2005 and a collection of poems, We Generous, was published by Red Hen Press in February 2007.
Tina Chang & Ravi Shankar: Thursday, November 15, 2007
7:30 p.m., Bowdoin College, Donald B. MacMillan House, 5 McKeen Street, Brunswick, MaineTina Chang, the author of Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004), received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, Indiana Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, among others. Her poems have been anthologized in Identity Lessons (Penguin Putnum, 1999), Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press, 1998), Asian American Literature (McGraw-Hill, 2001), Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004), and in Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation and has held writing fellowships from Fundación Valparaíso, The MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Villa Montalvo.
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