New Poets of Native Nations: 2018 National Book Festival
Heid E. Erdrich, Natalie Diaz and Jennifer Elise Foerster present New Poets of Native Nations at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. Her poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec was praised by The New York Times as a beautiful book. She is a contributor to the anthology New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf). Diaz has played professional basketball and received a full athletic scholarship to Old Dominion University, where she earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. Among her honors is the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Foundation.
Speaker Biography: Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. Her poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec was praised by The New York Times as a beautiful book. She is a contributor to the anthology New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf). Diaz has played professional basketball and received a full athletic scholarship to Old Dominion University, where she earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. Among her honors is the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Foundation.
Speaker Biography: Poet Jennifer Elise Foerster is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and one of the contributors to the anthology New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf). She has a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts, an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Her poetry collections are Leaving Tulsa and Bright Raft in the Afterweather. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf.
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Drive to Leonminster MA Friends Of NRA Meeting
Rush Hour Drive to Leominster MA viewed at 4X the normal driving speed passing through the Towns of Framingham, Southborough, Marlborough, Hudson, Bolton and Lancaster Massachusetts. Normally this is supposed to be a 40-45 minute drive, but during rush hour it is well over an hour (1 hr and 20 mutes) and that is without any accidents. Driving to Leominster is to attend a Board Meeting of the Friends of the NRA. The Purpose of the Friends of NRA is to raise money that is spent only for education and training, particularly for our youth in Scouts, Sports Clubs and Schools for the safe handling of firearms. The Friends of NRA is not a political organization. Our efforts focus on education. Like my fellow colleagues we are volunteering our time to raise money for educational purposes as the best way to increase our overall safety in matters concerning self defense. Also note the house shown at the beginning of this video was where Christa (Corrigan) McAuliffe grew up when her family lived in the north side of Framingham.
Visiting Writers Series Interview With Michael Waters
In an interview with Suzanne Parker, poet Michael Waters, author of 8 collections of poetry and numerous anthologies, talks about his work which ranges from early surrealist-tinged poems to later formal poems and the evolution of his aesthetics. He reads his collected work and discusses the idea of desire and connection in his work.
'On The Nail' Reading @ The Locke Bar Thurs 6th May 2010
'On The Nail' Reading @ The Locke Bar, Limerick
Thurs. 6th May 2010 8.00pm
The next monthly 'On The Nail' literary reading takes place Thursday 6th May 2010 at 8.00pm in The Locke Bar, George's Quay, Limerick.
Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.
This Months Guest Readers Kevin Higgins, Mary Madec and Susan Millar DuMars.
Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in Galway, Ireland. He has published three collections of poems The Boy With No Face (2005), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008) and Frightening New Furniture (2010) all published by Salmon Poetry. His work also features in Identity Parade New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe 2010).
Mary Madec was born in County Mayo. She started writing poetry about six years ago and since then has published in Crannóg, West 47, The Cúirt Annual, the SHOp, The Sunday Tribune, WOW and Iota among others. In Spring 2007 she was chosen for the Poetry Ireland Introductions; she was runner-up in the Raftery competition and published in the WINDOWS anthology. She also organises a community-writing project Away with Words for people with intellectual disabilities. Mary won the 2008 Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry. She is a participant in Kevin Higginss advanced poetry workshop at Galway Arts Centre and read at the 2008 Cúirt Festival Over The Edge Showcase reading. Marys first collection of poems, In Other Words, is just published by Salmon Poetry.
Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966 to a Belfast-born mother. She holds an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in the US, UK and Ireland. Susan's stories have been short-listed for many awards, and in 2005 she received an Irish Arts Council Bursary for her fiction. American Girls, a volume of her short stories, was published by Lapwing in 2007. Susan lives in Galway, Ireland. Since 2003, Susan and her husband Kevin Higgins have organised the successful Over the Edge reading series, showcasing new writers. Susan teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute, Galway Arts Centre, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and on the Brothers of Charity Away With Words programme. Big Pink Umbrella (Salmon Poetry, 2008) is the first full collection of her poetry. One of her poems has been chosen by editor, Mathew Sweeney, for inclusion in Best of Irish Poetry 2010 (Southword Editions). Several of her poems will feature in Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland, edited by Eva Bourke (Dedalus Press, March 2010). Her second collection of poems, Dreams for Breakfast, is just published by Salmon Poetry.
Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers . Even if you don't write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 8.00pm and there is free admission and free finger food for everyone attending. So join us on the night and make this event something special.
NOTE: Our special authors book table will again be in operation, so if you want your book, CD's etc publicised make sure you are represented on the
table. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 to make arrangements.
Further information contact: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 email
limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com web
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