POG

Poetry in Action
Since 1996

A collective of poets, literary critics, and practitioners of other art forms who have joined together in Tucson, Arizona

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POG Reading:

Farid Matuk, Susan Briante & Wendy Burk

Saturday April 21, 2012, 7pm ,$5 / $3 students
The Drawing Studio / 33 S 6th Ave, Tucson
520-615-7803 for information

Farid Matuk Poet, born in Peru to Peruvian and Syrian parents, editor of Fence magazine and translator of Spanish language poetry. Author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010, awarded Honorable Mention, 2011 Arab American Book Awards) and chapbook Is It The King? (2006). Poems have appeared in 6x6, Shampoo, Barrelhouse, The Boston Review, Big Bridge, Cannibal, Mandorla, and others. Received Ford and Fulbright Fellowships. Lives in Dallas, Texas.

Susan Briante Poet, author of Pioneers in the Study of Motion (2010). Poetry and essays have appeared in Damn the Caesars, Fascicle, Bombay Gin, The Believer, and others. Resided in Mexico 1992–97.
Currently assistant professor of creative writing and literature, University of Texas at Dallas.

Wendy Burk Poet and translator of Spanish, has twice served as an artist-in-residence with the National Park Service. She is now the library supervisor at the U of A Poetry Center. She is the translator for While Light is Built <http://www.korepress.org/catalog2.htm>, poems by Tedi Lopez Mills.
Her poems have appeared in journals including EAOGH and Slipstream.

Barb Henning

Here's a note from our friend & sometime-Tucsonan
(now New Yorker) Barbara Henning,
on the Tucson Poetry community!

We miss you, Barbara!

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from Poets & Writers, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English.

POG is also grateful to our generous donors:

Patrons: Charles Alexander & Cynthia Miller, Renée Angle, Roberto Bedoya, W. and R. Bernheimer Family Foundation, Laynie Browne, Sue Carnahan, Chax Press, Alison Deming, Allison Dushane, Barbara Henning, John Hudak, Paul Klinger, Tony Luebbermann, Ken McAllister, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Ander Monson, Sheila Murphy, Tenney Nathanson & Lynda Zwinger, Rodney Phillips, Siri Phillips, Frances Sjoberg, Lusia Slomkowska

Sponsors: Samuel Ace, Tom & Lisa Cooper Anderson, Gail Browne, Carlos Gallego, Anne Marie Hall, Jason Lagapa, Jami Macarty, Tim Peterson, Boyer Rickel, Steve Salmoni, Jesse Seldess, Christina Smith & Joel Arthur, Tyrone Williams, and Anonymous

POG strives to make all events and venues accessible to persons with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations may be provided upon request with two weeks notice.

For further information contact POG: (520) 615-7803, pog@gopog.org http://www.gopog.org

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