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10.07.2007
Jan Clausen Reading from New Poetry Books, Park Slope, 10/18/2007
Jan Clausen, Beatrix Gates, and Joan Larkin will read at the Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. (free admission—books for sale!). The Community Bookstore is located at 143 Seventh Avenue (between Carroll and Garfield). Phone 718-783-3075.
ABOUT THE POETS
Jan Clausen has just published two poetry collections: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship as well as a NYFA poetry fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College, and at New York University.
Beatrix Gates is the author of the poetry collections Ten Minutes, native tongue, Shooting at Night, and In the Open, which was a Lambda Poetry Award finalist. As librettist and conceiver of the opera “The Singing Bridge,” with composer Anna Dembska, she and the composer received support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA/NEA; the opera premiered at Maine’s Stonington Opera House in 2005. In another collaboration, Beatrix Gates and Electa Arenal were awarded a 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute to co-translate poems by contemporary Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. Gates edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Writings and Photographs on Love (Anchor) and founded Granite Press (1973-89) in Penobscot, Maine. She currently teaches in the Goddard College MFA Program.
Joan Larkin is the author of the poetry collections Housework (1975), A Long Sound (1986), Cold River (1997), and My Body: New and Selected Poems, published in 2007 by Hanging Loose Press. Cold River was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award. With Elly Bulkin, Larkin co-edited the anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry; with Carl Morse, she co-edited Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time; and she is also the editor of A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, Larkin is a member of the core faculty of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.
ABOUT THE POETS
Jan Clausen has just published two poetry collections: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship as well as a NYFA poetry fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College, and at New York University.
Beatrix Gates is the author of the poetry collections Ten Minutes, native tongue, Shooting at Night, and In the Open, which was a Lambda Poetry Award finalist. As librettist and conceiver of the opera “The Singing Bridge,” with composer Anna Dembska, she and the composer received support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA/NEA; the opera premiered at Maine’s Stonington Opera House in 2005. In another collaboration, Beatrix Gates and Electa Arenal were awarded a 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute to co-translate poems by contemporary Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. Gates edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Writings and Photographs on Love (Anchor) and founded Granite Press (1973-89) in Penobscot, Maine. She currently teaches in the Goddard College MFA Program.
Joan Larkin is the author of the poetry collections Housework (1975), A Long Sound (1986), Cold River (1997), and My Body: New and Selected Poems, published in 2007 by Hanging Loose Press. Cold River was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award. With Elly Bulkin, Larkin co-edited the anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry; with Carl Morse, she co-edited Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time; and she is also the editor of A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, Larkin is a member of the core faculty of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.
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