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Programs :
ALA Conference Events
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Poets
House and the American Library Association
Presented
at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago
by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office.
Please call (212) 431-7920 for event locations and admission prices.
Poets
House brings the 2000 Poetry Publication Showcase to the ALA Conference
so that 20,000 librarians from across the country can survey the
year's poetry books.
The Showcase exhibit is open for browsing: July 8-10, 9 am-5 pm;
July 11, 9 am-3 pm
Panel
Discussion: "The Poetry Revolution"
Saturday,
July 8 9:30 - 11 a.m. An Annual Conference favorite! Poets and
librarians talk about libraries and poetry-programming, reaching
new audiences, developing the collection. Come and be inspired
by the many success stories and get helpful tips and ideas.
Speakers:
Stuart Dybek, Kate Rushin, Michael Warr and Kay Cassell, Associate
Director for the Office of Programs and Services,
New York Public Library.
2:30
- 3:30 p.m. & 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Poetry Readings
2:30
- 3:00 p.m. - Gerald Stern
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Kate Rushin
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. - Stuart Dybek
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Luis Rodr’quez
Sunday,
July 9 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. & 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Poetry Readings
2:30
- 3:00 p.m. - Diane Glancy
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Sterling Plumpp
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. - Brigit Pegeen Kelly
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Richard Jones
Monday,
July 10 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. & 4 - 5 p.m. Poetry Readings
2:30
- 3:00 p.m. - Beatriz Badikian
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Michael Warr
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. - David Wojahn
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Cin Salach
5
- 7 pm Librarians (and Vendors) Open Mic
Unleash
the poet in you over wine and cheese! Sign up in advance at the
Poetry Publication Showcase display near the LIVE at the Library
Readings Stage in the Exhibit Hall. Reception begins at 5. Readings
at 5:30.
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Beatriz
Badikian was born and reared in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
has lived in the Chicago area for the last thirty years. A popular
performer in the Chicago poetry scene, Badikian holds a Ph.D. in
English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches writing
and literature at Roosevelt University. Her work has been published
in numerous journals, anthologies, and newspapers in the United
States and abroad. Her second full length collection Mapmaker
Revisited: New and Selected Poems has just been published from
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Stuart
Dybek is the author of two collections of stories, The Coast
of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, and
a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles. His numerous award
and honors include a 1998 Lannan Award, the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud
Prize, an Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters in 1994, and four O. Henry Prizes. He is currently
professor of English at Western Michigan University and a member
of the permanent faculty for the Prague Summer Writers Workshop.
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Diane
Glancy's many books include Flutie (fiction), The Cold-and-Hunger
Dance, (essays), and The Relief of America (poetry).
She is the co-editor, with Mark Nowak, of Visit Teepee Town:
Native Writings After the Detours, an anthology of postmodern
Native poetry and poetics. Among her many honors are grants from
the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities,
an American Book Award, the Native American Prose Award, and a Loft
McKnight Fellowship. She is currently a professor at Macalaster
College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American
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Dave
Johnson is the author of a book of poetry entitled Marble
Shoot, and the plays A Sister, A Cousin, An Aunt and
Baptized to the Bone. He is also the editor of Movin',
a collection of teen poems produced in association with The New
York Public Library and Poets House. He has taught extensively in
the Poetry in The Branches programs in community libraries. He also
teaches writing at the New School, Cooper Union, Columbia University
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Richard
Jones is the author of several books of poetry, including Country
of Air. At Last We Enter Paradise, A Perfect Time, and The
Blessing: New and Selected Poems. Jones is also the founder
and editor of the literary journal Poetry East, which is
celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three retrospective anthologies:
The Last Believer in Words (translations, 1998), They
Say This (essays, 1999), and Who Are the Rich and Where do
They Live? (poetry, 2000). He directs the Creative Writing Program
at DePaul University in Chicago. top |
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Brigit Pegeen Kelly currently teaches in the creative writing
program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and in
the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers. She has won numerous
awards for her work, including the 1994 Lamont Poetry Award from
the Academy of American Poets for Song and fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey Council for
the Arts and the Illinois State Council on the Arts. Her first book,
To the Place of Trumpets, won the 1987 Yale Series of Younger
Poets competition. She lives with her family in Urbana, Illinois.
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Sterling Plumpp, born in the Mississippi Delta, is a nationally
lauded poet known for his unique incorporation of blues and jazz
into his writing. His many books include Hornman, Ornate with
Smoke, and Mojo Hands Call I Must Go, which won the Carl
Sandburg Literary Prize for Poetry. He is a professor of African-American
studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and
an expert on African-American music, including blues, jazz and gospel.
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Luis Rodr’guez is best known for his 1993 memoir, Always
Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., an international best
seller and winner of a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a Chicago
Sun-Times Book Award. His poetry has been published in three collections,
Poems Across Pavement, The Concrete River and Trochemoche,
and featured in the CD compilation In Their Own Voices: A Century
of Recorded Poetry and in Making Peace, a 1997 PBS-TV
series. He helped start Chicago's Guild Complex and its publishing
wing, Tia Chucha Press, and is one of the founders of Youth Struggling
for Survival, a Chicago-based not-for-profit community group working
with gang and non-gang youth. top |
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Kate
Rushin is the author of The Black Back-Ups, which was
a New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age" selection. She
is a recipient of the Grolier Poetry Prize and the Rose Low Rome
Memorial Prize, and has received fellowships from The Artists Foundation
and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 1997, she was
the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Poet. She is currently leading the
Cave Canem African American Poets Spring Workshop in New York City
and is Visiting Writer and Adjunct Assistant Professor of African
American Studies at Wesleyan University. top |
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Cin
Salach is a multi-media poet who has been performing her work
across the country since 1987. A member of the first National Slam
Championship Team, she was chosen in 1989 as a cultural ambassador
to Prague. She is the co-founder of the performance groups LoofahMethod
and Betty's Mouth, and is currently appearing with TenTongues,
an ensemble whose work has been described by the Chicago Sun Times
as "blissful and hypnotic." Her collection of poems is Looking
for a Soft Place to Land. top |
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Gerald
Stern, author of ten collections of poetry, has won many awards,
most recently the National Book Award and the Ruth Lilly Poetry
Prize and for This Time: New and Selected Poems. Other awards
include a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, The Paterson
Poetry Prize, The Lamont Poetry Prize, and grants from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest volume
of poetry, Last Blue, will be published in April 2000. He
spent thirteen years on the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
and currently lives in New Jersey. top |
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Michael
Warr's awards for poetry include a National Endowment for the
Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant
Illinois Poets Award. He is the author of the poetry collection
We Are All The Black Boy and co-editor of Powerlines--A
Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex. His digital/poetry
performance, Poetic Aperture, based on his poetry and original
images he created as a photojournalist in Africa, debuted this year
at The Field Museum. He is the founder of the Guild Complex, an
award-winning, cross-cultural literary arts center, which he directed
from 1989-1999, and remains and editor at its publishing wing, Tia
Chucha Press. top |
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David
Wojahn is the author of five collections of poetry, Icehouse
Lights, which was the 1981 winner of the Yale Series of Younger
Poets Award, and four collections from the University of Pittsburgh
Press, Glassworks, Mystery Train, Late Empire, and The
Falling Hour. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos
Williams Book Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and
the George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine. He directs the
Program in Creative Writing at Indiana University. top |
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