Showing posts with label Mark Strand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Strand. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2009

Jorie Graham at "Poetries of the Stranger"

Jorie Graham read at the international poetry festival "Poetries of the Stranger" during the evening devoted to "Strange Image," along with Henri Cole and Mark Strand (April 18, 2009).   The festival, created by Richard Kearney and held at Boston College, treats the theme of hospitality to the stranger.  

This has been quite an eventful month for Graham.  On April 13, 2009 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The induction and award ceremony will take place on May 20, 2009.

Links:
Jorie Graham's website (www.joriegraham.com).
Poetries of the Stranger (www.bc.edu).
Jorie Graham reading at Penn, and introduced by Bob Perleman (BLIP.fm).
American Academy of Arts and Letters (www.artsandletters.org).
"Arts Academy Welcomes 2 UI Graduates," University of Iowa (www.iowa.com).

Monday, March 16, 2009

Poetry & the Creative Mind

April is coming, and National Poetry Month in the U.S.A will begin as it has for the past six years, with a gala benefit called "Poetry & the Creative Mind" on April first.  This year at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center there will be readings from Jorie Graham, Wynton Marsalis, Zadie Smith, Mark Strand, and others.  

The Academy of American Poets is also sponsering a photo contest with photos of verse to be posted to the Flickr group "Free Verse" (created March 13, 2009).

Links:
"Poetry & The Creative Mind Gala" (www.poets.org).