Poetry World Series - Litquake 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Emceed by the incomparable Daniel Handler! Two teams of award-winning poets--Mark Bibbins, Victoria Chang, Gillian Conoley, Cate Marvin, Tomas Morin, and Indigo Moor--take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience.
Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won't know what's coming next! Hilarity guaranteed. A panel of eminently qualified judges--Ellen Bass, Chad Sweeney, and Kevin Killian--will score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Book sale/signing follows the reading.
Tickets $5.00 in advance (http://tinyurl.com/olbqpm9); $7.00 at the door; doors open at 6:30. Don't forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with!
As poet Marianne Moore wrote, “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go.”
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Daniel Handler is the author of five novels, including We Are Pirates, out in February. As Lemony Snicket, he's responsible for too many books for children, including the relatively new series All The Wrong Questions.
Mark Bibbins’s third book is They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full. He is a Lambda Literary Award winner.
Victoria Chang’s third book of poems, The Boss, was published by McSweeney's. It won a California Book Award. Her other books are Salvinia Molesta and Circle.
Gillian Conoley's seventh book, Peace, is just out with Omnidawn. Her translation of Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken: Three Books By Henri Michaux, is also just out with City Lights. She teaches at Sonoma State and edits Volt.
Cate Marvin's third book of poems, Oracle, is forthcoming from Norton in March 2015. A co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, she lives in Maplewood, NJ.
Indigo Moor is a multi-genre writer with two books of poetry, three produced short plays, and a full-length play that is being turned into a film.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection A Larger Country, and translator of Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu.
Ellen Bass's poetry includes Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon 2014), The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Pacific University.
Chad Sweeney is the author of five books of poetry and two of translation. He teaches in the MFA program at Cal State San Bernardino.
Kevin Killian writes fiction, poetry, plays and criticism. Recent books include a novel (Spreadeagle), a book of poems (Tweaky Village), and a collection of photographs (Tagged).
Emceed by the incomparable Daniel Handler! Two teams of award-winning poets--Mark Bibbins, Victoria Chang, Gillian Conoley, Cate Marvin, Tomas Morin, and Indigo Moor--take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience.
Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won't know what's coming next! Hilarity guaranteed. A panel of eminently qualified judges--Ellen Bass, Chad Sweeney, and Kevin Killian--will score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Book sale/signing follows the reading.
Tickets $5.00 in advance (http://tinyurl.com/olbqpm9); $7.00 at the door; doors open at 6:30. Don't forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with!
As poet Marianne Moore wrote, “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go.”
~~~~~~
Daniel Handler is the author of five novels, including We Are Pirates, out in February. As Lemony Snicket, he's responsible for too many books for children, including the relatively new series All The Wrong Questions.
Mark Bibbins’s third book is They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full. He is a Lambda Literary Award winner.
Victoria Chang’s third book of poems, The Boss, was published by McSweeney's. It won a California Book Award. Her other books are Salvinia Molesta and Circle.
Gillian Conoley's seventh book, Peace, is just out with Omnidawn. Her translation of Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken: Three Books By Henri Michaux, is also just out with City Lights. She teaches at Sonoma State and edits Volt.
Cate Marvin's third book of poems, Oracle, is forthcoming from Norton in March 2015. A co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, she lives in Maplewood, NJ.
Indigo Moor is a multi-genre writer with two books of poetry, three produced short plays, and a full-length play that is being turned into a film.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection A Larger Country, and translator of Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu.
Ellen Bass's poetry includes Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon 2014), The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Pacific University.
Chad Sweeney is the author of five books of poetry and two of translation. He teaches in the MFA program at Cal State San Bernardino.
Kevin Killian writes fiction, poetry, plays and criticism. Recent books include a novel (Spreadeagle), a book of poems (Tweaky Village), and a collection of photographs (Tagged).
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