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Monday Poets - Simon West & Myronn Hardy
Monday Poets 29th season and this year we are back onsite and in the Literature Department on the 2nd floor. We are super excited about this since you will have time to peruse our shelves and even check out books since the building is open until 8pm. Mark your calendars for the third Monday of each Month.
Simon West is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Carol and Ahoy and The Ladder, which was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. He lives in Melbourne, Australia and yes let's give a warm welcome to our friend from down under!
Myronn Hardy is the author of five previous books of poems, including Radioactive Starlings (Princeton). His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Poetry, the New Republic, and the Baffler, among other publications, and have won many prizes, including the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. He teaches at Bates College in Lewiston Maine.
This event as with all the Monday Poets events is free and open to the public and will take place in Room 108 on the first floor.. If the poet wishes to bring their books for sale they will. Please come out and enjoy the beauty of hearing out loud poetry written and read by some of our finest poets today.
If you have any questions please call or email us. We look forward to seeing you onsite!
Nathalie Anderson - Professor Anderson's poems have been singled out for prizes and special recognition from the Joseph Campbell Society, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Inkwell Magazine, The Madison Review, New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, North American Review, and The Southern Anthology, and have also appeared in APR's Philly Edition, Atlanta Review, Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, Journal of the Mythic Arts, Louisville Review, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Recorder, Southern Poetry Review, and Spazio Humano, among other literary magazines. Her work has been commissioned for the Ulster Museum's collection of visual art and poetry titled A Conversation Piece; for the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition Sarah McEneany at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania; and for the artist’s press book titled Ars Botanica published by Enid Mark of ELM Press. Her poetry appears in The Book of Irish American Poetry From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Notre Dame) and in Perrine’s Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (Wadsworth), and her poems have twice been solicited for inclusion in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St.Martin’s).
Lawrence Dugan - His new book THE SEA AGAIN: POEMS is published by Finishing Line Press. Many of the poems first appeared in magazines and journals including ARION, DAEDALUS, THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW, NATIONAL REVIEW, and THE THREEPENNY REVIEW. He worked as a librarian for many years at The Free Library where he helped run Monday Poets.
This event as with all the Monday Poets events is free and open to the public and will take place in Room 108 on the first floor.. If the poet wishes to bring their books for sale they will. Please come out and enjoy the beauty of hearing out loud poetry written and read by some of our finest poets today. Please bring a friend or two!
Enter from the Wood Street entrance which is the tiny street behind Parkway Central Library.
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