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POETRY CENTER EVENTS 2012

Date

Event

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Poetry Appreciation Day
Time:
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location: TBA
Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to read from their own poetry and short fiction or work they admire by other authors.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Poetry reading Annibelle Moseley
Time:
12:30-1:20 p.m.
Location: TBA
Editor of the online journal Stringpoets
Former writer-in- residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

David Lehman
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location: Hutchins Gallery with exhibition of Jewish American Composers 
Poetry reading focused on the influence of lyrics from the American songbook on his writing. Lehman is author of A Fine Romance, a study of Jewish-American composers for musical theatre. Editor and anthologist of contemporary poetry. On the faculty at New School University

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Poetry Awards Night
Time:
7 p.m.
Location: Great Hall
Tracy K. Smith, poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Author of Life on Mars (Graywolf 201). Duende (Graywolf, 2007) and The Body’s Question (Graywolf, 2003).
Poetry awards and the first short fiction contest award will be announced.

Contact Us:

Joan Digby (Joan.Digby@liu.edu)
Director
C.W. Post Poetry Center
English Department
C.W. Post Campus
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, N.Y. 11548-1300
Phone: 516-299-2391
Fax: 516-299-2997