Pauletta Hansel reads at Cincinnati Public Library’s Poetry in the Garden Series

April 24, 7pm

Carolyne Wright, Rhonda Pettit and Pauletta Hansel will read as  part of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s Poetry in the  Garden Series on Tuesday, April 24 at 7pm.. The series starts tonight!!  This week’s readers include Karen George, a winner of this year’s poetry contest.  Visit http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/news/2012/poetry.html for details.

Poet Carolyne Wright at Grailville

April 21, 1:30 to 3:30 pm

On Saturday, April 21 1:30- 4:30 pm Grailville hosts award winning poet, Carolyne Wright  presenting Poetry and Public Life-Writing as Witness. As poets and writers,  we might not consider our work as a public act. Yet poetry has always been a mode of truth-telling–even more so now, given the conditions of political,  social, environmental and ethical extremity that prevail in this new  millennium.

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Now available fron Night Boat Books, Michael Heller’s collected poems

This Constellation Is a Name – Collected Poem 1965 – 2010.

Publication date: May 1, 2012
Nightboat Books; Distributed by UPNE (www.upne.com)
Paper │ $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-937658-02-1
6 x 9″ ‌│ 600 pages │ Poetry

A landmark volume gathering 45 years of work by one of our leading poets

From his early spare poems written in Spain to the recent ruminative work exploring language, tradition (often Jewish and diasporic) and the self, this book collects four decades of Michael Heller’s “tone perfect poems” as George Oppen described them. Enriched with the detailed landscapes of the phenomenal world and mind, This Constellation Is a Name confirms Michael Heller’s place at the forefront of contemporary American poetry.

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Henry Weinfield to read at Xavier, 8.p.m., March 22

The Xavier University Department of English

Ryan Writers Series presents

Henry Weinfield

Thursday, March 22nd, 8:00

Conaton Learning Commons 413

Poet, critic, and translator, Henry Weinfield is a Professor in the Program for Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  His new book is A Wandering Aramaen, from Cincinnati’s own Dos Madres Press. He is also the author of Without Mythologies: New & Selected Poems & Translations(Dos Madres Press, 2008), The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999) and of three other collections of poetry. His translations include Hesiod’s Works and Days and Theogony (University of Michigan Press) and the Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé(University of California Press, 1995).   He has also written two critical studies, The Poet without a Name: Gray’s Elegy and the Problem of History(Southern Illinois UP, 1991) and The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk (University of Iowa Press, 2009). His study of the blank-verse tradition in English poetry from Milton to Stevens is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

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Rick Mullin reads from Soutine in March, New York, and New Jersey venues

March 10—New Jersey: Rick Mullin will be launching Soutine at Words bookstore in Maplewood at 7:30 pm. The reading will be introduced by the painter Paul Weingarten. Words is located at 179 Maplewood Ave., Maplewood, NJ (973) 763 9500. Words is across the street from New Jersey Transit’s (Maplewood) train station.

March 22—New York: Book launch for Soutine will be at Swifts Hibernian Lounge at 7:00 pm. The venue is located at 34 East 4th Street, New York, NY (212) 227 9438. More information on the Swifts reading is forthcoming.

Attendance at both events is free. The New Jersey event shall adjourn to St. James Gate, a wonderful Irish bar just down the street. Swifts, itself, is a bar and restaurant—the event will take place in the back room, which has a fine pulpit.