Poet David Clewell Reading & Signing, April 23
Subterranean Books, Montag, April 23, 2012 um 7pm
Missouri's most recent Poet Laureate will read at the U City Public Library Monday, April 23, 7pm
Subterranean Books and the Friends of the University City Public Library are excited to announce a reading and signing with poet David Clewell. Copies of his books will be available for purchase at the event.
David Clewell has been an English professor at Webster University since 1981, where he also directs the department's Creative Writing program.
He has published eight collections of poems—most recently Taken Somehow by Surprise, winner of the Four Lakes Poetry Prize (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2011)—and two book-length poems. His work has appeared regularly in a wide variety of magazines, including Harper's, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee. Clewell has received the Pollak Poetry Prize for Now we're getting somewhere and the Lavan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His Blessings in Disguise was a winner in the National Poetry Series.
Clewell holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from Washington University. Clewell, 55, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and moved to St. Louis in 1979, where he lives with his wife and teenage son.
*Photo courtesy of Webster University.
Location: Street: U City Public Library Additional: 6701 Delmar Blvd City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63130-4716 Country: United States (hinzugefügt von IndieBound)… (mehr)
Subterranean Books and the Friends of the University City Public Library are excited to announce a reading and signing with poet David Clewell. Copies of his books will be available for purchase at the event.
David Clewell has been an English professor at Webster University since 1981, where he also directs the department's Creative Writing program.
He has published eight collections of poems—most recently Taken Somehow by Surprise, winner of the Four Lakes Poetry Prize (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2011)—and two book-length poems. His work has appeared regularly in a wide variety of magazines, including Harper's, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee. Clewell has received the Pollak Poetry Prize for Now we're getting somewhere and the Lavan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His Blessings in Disguise was a winner in the National Poetry Series.
Clewell holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from Washington University. Clewell, 55, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and moved to St. Louis in 1979, where he lives with his wife and teenage son.
*Photo courtesy of Webster University.
Location: Street: U City Public Library Additional: 6701 Delmar Blvd City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63130-4716 Country: United States (hinzugefügt von IndieBound)… (mehr)
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