Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:30--8 pm 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contribution JACQUELINE DE WEEVER, MARISOL RUIZ, ILENE STARGER & OPEN READING Jacqueline De Weever is Professor Emerita from Brooklyn College, where she aught English Medieval literature for 29 years. She has published four books in her field, and her poems have appeared variously in the Amazonian Literary Review, American Poets and Poetry, Blue Unicorn, Brooklyn Review, the Cape Rock Review, Connecticut River Review, Illya’s Honey, Kyk-over-al (Guyana), Nomads Choir, Sensations Magazine, Sensations Magazine, Tiger’s Eye, Iodine, Presa, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Parnassus Literary Journal, Poetry Depth Quarterly, New Mirage Quarterly, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, Vanitas, Marisol Ruiz is a poet. This is her first time being featured, and she is working on publishing her first book of poetry. Marisol Ruiz is a poet. Ilene Starger is a New York-born poet. Her work has been published in Bayou, Oyez Review, Georgetown Review, Tributaries, Folio, Oberon, Paper Street, Second Wind, Tar Wolf Review, Erato, Grasslimb, Manzanita, Poesia, Ibbetson Street, Iodine, Phoenix, The New Renaissance, The Same, and online in the Tupelo Press Poetry Project and The Istanbul Literary Review. She received Honorable Mentions in the 2004 Ann Stanford Prize sponsored by the Southern California Anthology, and in the 2005 New Millennium Writings Competition; she was a finalist in the 2005 Ann Stanford Prize. She received Honorable Mentions in the 2006 Oliver Browning Poetry Competition sponsored by Poesia/Indian Bay Press, and in the 2007 Poetry Competition sponsored by Writecorner Press. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Lethe, Postponed in September 2008. She is the co-creator of Elusive Things, a classical song cycle composed by Eric Shimelonis based on ten of her poems. Elusive Things, sung by F. Murray Abraham and played by the musicians of Voice of the City Ensemble, had its premiere at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on January 15, 2010. Forgive Me if None of This is True, her new full-length collection, has just been published. HOST: Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001) and his “Poem to Spring in a Time of Global Warming” appears on AboutPoetry In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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