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October 2008
October 2
A pre-season reading featuring poets Chris Agee and Sinéad Morrissey
to celebrate the publication of The New North: Contemporary
Poetry from Northern Ireland. Co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts,
Wake Forest University Press, and the Poetry and Literature Center, 7 p.m.,
Mumford Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building.
October 16
Poet Laureate Kay Ryan opens the literary season, 6:45 p.m., Mumford
Room, 6th floor, Madison Building.
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October 23
Jane Shore and Dabney Stuart read from their recent works, 6:45 p.m.,
Montpelier Room, 6th floor, Madison Building.
October 24
Matthew Thorburn and Monica Youn, winners of the 2008 Witter Bynner poetry fellowships
from the Library of Congress, will give a poetry reading in the Carol Huxley
Theater in the New York State Museum on Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
[More information]
November 2008
November 18
Poetry at Noon, "Celebrating Kentucky Poets." State Poet Laureate
Jane Gentry Vance introduces three native Kentuckians who have won
the Yale Series of Younger Poets award: Maurice Manning, Tony Crunk and Davis
McCombs, noon-1 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First
Street, SE. This event is cosponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center
and the Center for the Book and is supported in part by a partnership grant
from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency which receives state
tax dollars and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
November 20
For lovers of words--poet and critic James Longenbach goes out on a
limb to define the boundaries between genres in"Poem, Prose, Prose-Poem:
Two and a Half Definitions," 6:45 p.m., Montpelier Room, 6th floor,
Madison Building.
December 2008
December 9
Poetry at Noon, the"Airpoets" from Indiana including immediate
past State Poet Laureate Joyce Brinkman and current Laureate Norbert Krapf
with Ruthelen Burns and Joseph Heithaus. Poems by the"Airpoets"are
part of the stained glass art that will adorn the new Indianapolis International
Airport scheduled to open later this fall.
