POETRY IN ACTION

POG begins its new season with the POG Directors Group Reading! This year it will be held at Club Congress. Plan on coming early, between 6 and 7 PM, and mix with the Directors in the lounge or browse their books at the book table. The program begins promptly at 7 PM. 21 or over.

Visit our CALENDAR page for all of POG's fantastic events coming up in 2010-2011!

September 23, 2010: Thursday - POG Directors Group Reading - 7 PM, Club Congress at Hotel Congress (map), 311 E. Congress, Tucson. Most POG Board Members and, new this year, the POG Assistants will delight all with their literary talents. $5 General, $3 Students (21 or over).

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Samuel Ace has published widely in periodicals and journals. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. (a multimedia video, poetry and photography project) and Stealth (a collaboration with poet Maureen Seaton, forthcoming from Chax Press). He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Astraea Prize and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.

Charles Alexander is founder/director of Chax Press, publisher of innovative poetry and book arts editions. His books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light / Dark Matter, Near or Random Acts, and Certain Slants, as well as several chapbooks. His honors include the Arizona Arts Award and two Fund for Poetry Awards. He shares a studio and life with Tucson visual artist Cynthia Miller. Lately he has been lost (or found) somewhere among the poetic waters of Ludovico Ariosto, Walter Ralegh and David Jones. He'll surface sometime soon.

Lisa Cooper Anderson is a poet, editor, and near-native Tucsonan. Two chapbooks and a collection entitled & Calling It Home were published by Chax Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including EOAGH, Hambone, Logodaedalus, Sonora Review, and Spork.

Laynie Browne is the author of eight collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent books include: The Desires of Letters (2010, Counterpath), The Scented Fox, (recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series Award), and Daily Sonnets. She currently edits for Tarpaulin Sky and Trickhouse. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland, at Naropa University and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Tony Luebbermann serves on the boards of Chax Press, POG, and the Tucson Poetry Festival. He received an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He holds degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University and the University of Arizona. Tony is the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Volunteer Coordinator and a member of the Center’s Development Committee and the College of Humanities Advisory Board.

Cynthia Miller has been a teaching artist for over twenty-five years. She maintains a studio in downtown Tucson shared with husband, poet Charles Alexander and Chax Press. She has work in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson International Airport, The Getty Museum, and private collections. Besides painting, other works include album cover design, stage props for modern dance company, logo, poster, and illustration graphics, sculptural installations,and book arts collaborations with Chax Press. Recent Exhibition: Cue Art Foundation, NY, NY, Spring 2008.

Tenney Nathanson is the author of the collection Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005) and the book-length serial poems Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005) and Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Globalization) (Chax Press, 2010), as well as  the critical study Whitman’s Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU, 1992). He is currently at work on another serial poem, Minnesota China Guatemala Haiti: Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Unwinding).  He lives in Tucson, where he directs the PhD program in Literature and teaches American poetry and, from time to time, creative writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona.

Frank Parker is the author of three books of poetry, Heart Shaped Blossoms (1993-2007), zig-zag journeys (2009), and Win Po: a work in progress (2010), all from Obscure Press. He edits the online journal Frank's Home: An Active Anthology of Verse and publishes widely on the web. He is the sound technician for POG and Chax Press readings and maintains the web sites of POG and POG Sound.

THE ASSISTANTS:

Whitney DeVos currently lives & writes in Tucson, Arizona in pursuit of her MFA in poetry. This summer she was awarded the University of Arizona Writing Program Fellowship to obsess over medieval literature and play video games, and in the process create http://infernosummer.org. The website caters to a community of diverse readers, with the collective goal of reading and discussing each Canto from Dante’s Inferno. In May, she received the Grand Prize for Poetry in the Pabst Blue Ribbon Art Contest.

Sean F. Munro is an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona. He is also poetry editor of the Sonora Review. Mr. Munro is wildly aware of his funkentelechy and his poems are forthcoming. He recently unlocked the secrets of Whitman's epiphanic moments in "Songs of Myself" and will be applying them to his life. Nice to meet you.

October 9, 2010: Saturday - Erin Mouré and Brent Hendricks -8 PM, St. Andrews Episcopal Church (map), 545 S. 5th Ave., Tucson, AZ. $5 General, $3 Students, all ages.

Erin Mouré is a Montreal poet and translator of poetry from Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese to English. She has read from her work in English, French and Galician in Canada, USA, England, Wales, France, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Germany and Japan, and has given seminars in translation, language and construction of identity, and poetics. She is the author of ten books of poetry, seven books of translations, and two books of essays. Her latest book of poems is O Resplandor published by House of Anansi Press (March 23, 2010).

Of her work, Melissa Jacques has written: "Erin Mouré's poetry is fragmented, meta-critical and explicitly deconstructive. Folding everyday events and ordinary people into complex and often irresolvable philosophical dilemmas, Mouré challenges the standards of accessibility and common sense. Not surprisingly, her work has met with a mixed response. Critics are often troubled by the difficult and therefore alienating nature of the writing; even amongst Mouré's advocates, the issues of accessibility and political efficacy are recurrent themes."

Erin Mouré at EPC http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/moure/

Brent Hendricks was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma in 1958, and was educated at Harvard Law School and the University of Arizona, where he obtained his JD and MFA. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Southern Review, New Review of Literature, Carolina Quarterly, Prairie Schooner and Black Warrior Review. He was a recent finalist for the Sarabande Award, National Poetry Series. Co-author of International Environmental Law in a Nutshell (West 1997), he also recently published a book of poetry called Thaumatrope (Action Books 2007). Brent works as General Council in the Tucson office of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Stay tuned to our CALENDAR page for more POG events this Fall!



EOAGH

EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, edited by ([now NYC-based] pogger) Tim Peterson and available online through Charles Alexander's Chax Press

 issue one is a special issue on Tucson poetry and includes work by    several members of the POG collective 
 issue two is a special issue in honor of Jackson Mac Low
 issue three is a special issue Queering Language
 issue four features 13 POG-List members
 issue five new poetry, reviews, essays and
   A PANEL, READING, & EXHIBITION
   Curated by Charles Alexander
   CHARLES OLSON: LANGUAGE AS PHYSICAL FACT
   Featuring:
   Tenney Nathanson
   Cole Swensen
   Steve McCaffery
   Barbara Henning
   Anne Waldman
   (including audio)

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, 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, Lisa Cooper Anderson, Gail Browne, Carlos Gallego, Anne Marie Hall, Jason Lagapa, Jami Macarty, Tim Peterson, Boyer Rickel, 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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