The Ordinary Evening Reading Series begins its 2007 season with poet April Bernard and novelist Roya Hakakian, appearing on January 23 at 7 PM in The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room. Check this site frequently for announcements of the balance of our season, which will feature playwrights, poets, and novelists, including novelist Fred Dillen and poet Lloyd Schwartz.
April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose most recent collection of poems is Swan Electric. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Agni, The Southwest Review, and many other magazines. She has received the Walt Whitman Prize from the Academy of American Poets, a Sidney Harmon Fellowship, and an award in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. April Bernard teaches literature and writing at Bennington College in Vermont. She will read from her forthcoming collection, In a Stolen Boat.
Roya Hakakian’s memoir, Journey from the Land of No– about a girlhood in revolutionary Iran– recently won the Connecticut Book Award; The Washington Post called it a “moving narrative” that “swings from funny to sad.” She is a former associate producer at CBS’s 60 Minutes and a documentary filmmaker, as well as the author of two acclaimed volumes of poetry in Persian and a contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Monday, December 11, 2006
Gabriel Gudding and Rosanna Warren Read on December 19th
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series closes out 2006 with readings by two terrific poets, Gabriel Gudding and Rosanna Warren, on December 19th at 7pm in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs at 272 College St., New Haven). We hope you'll take some time from the busy holiday season and join us.
Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and rhode island notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming 2008), which was written entirely in his car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, Rhode Island and Normal, Illinois. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he's an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University, teaching "experimental poetry." Gabriel's work has appeared in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence, American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and has been anthologized in Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He is a trained mediator for Illinois State, has begun two creative writing programs in prisons, and maintains a blog, Conchology.
Rosanna Warren was born in Connecticut in 1953. She was educated at Yale (BA 1976) and Johns Hopkins (MA 1980). She is the author of one chapbook of poems (Snow Day, Palaemon Press, 1981), and three collections of poems: Each Leaf Shines Separate (Norton, 1984), Stained Glass (Norton, 1993), and Departure (Norton, 2003). She edited and contributed to The Art of Translation: Voice from the Field (Northeastern, 1989), and has edited three chapbooks of poetry by prisoners. With her husband, Stephen Scully, she translated Euripides' Suppliant Women for Oxford University Press (1992). She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Readers? Digest Fund, among others. Stained Glass won the Lamont Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has won the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger Poets' Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Award of Merit in Poetry from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2004-2005 she was president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. She is Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University.
Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and rhode island notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming 2008), which was written entirely in his car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, Rhode Island and Normal, Illinois. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he's an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University, teaching "experimental poetry." Gabriel's work has appeared in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence, American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and has been anthologized in Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He is a trained mediator for Illinois State, has begun two creative writing programs in prisons, and maintains a blog, Conchology.
Rosanna Warren was born in Connecticut in 1953. She was educated at Yale (BA 1976) and Johns Hopkins (MA 1980). She is the author of one chapbook of poems (Snow Day, Palaemon Press, 1981), and three collections of poems: Each Leaf Shines Separate (Norton, 1984), Stained Glass (Norton, 1993), and Departure (Norton, 2003). She edited and contributed to The Art of Translation: Voice from the Field (Northeastern, 1989), and has edited three chapbooks of poetry by prisoners. With her husband, Stephen Scully, she translated Euripides' Suppliant Women for Oxford University Press (1992). She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Readers? Digest Fund, among others. Stained Glass won the Lamont Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has won the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger Poets' Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Award of Merit in Poetry from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2004-2005 she was president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. She is Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University.
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