VenueCarlow University  

Date03/31/2017 

Time3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorMadwomen in the Attic 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: In honor of National Poetry Month
Madwomen Reading Series and Carlow University present

Writers on Writing: A discussion and reading with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Friday, March 31, 2017
Aquinas Hall, Room 106, Carlow University
3:30-5 p.m.
Books available after the lecture.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. FREE PARKING.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s authored books include: (poetry) The Year of the Rat (chapbook), Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Streaming, Burn, Blood Run (poetry/verse-play); and a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. Hedge Coke has edited nine additional collections, including: Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies (Pacific Rim), Effigies II (US Continent), and Ahani (ToTopos). Current projects include Effigies III (Pacific Island) (2017), and the Red Dust film-media-lit-music project (in production). Hedge Coke is a Distinguished Professor at University of California Riverside, directs the Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat & Festival and has been awarded fellowships/residencies with Lannan Foundation, Weymouth Center for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden Castle, Great Plains Center, and her honors include an American Book Award, Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award, a Mentor of the Year Award, an IPPY Medal, a Pen Southwest Book Award, three distinguished positions, and numerous literary and arts grants. She is a poet, writer, performer, editor, and literary activist. She came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters, and working in factories.

For more information, please contact SARAH WILLIAMS-DEVEREUX at SEWILLIAMS412@CARLOW.EDU or JAN BEATTY at JPBEATTY@CARLOW.EDU.

This reading is sponsored by Carlow University’s English Program, Creative Writing Program, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Primary Contact PersonSarah Williams-Devereux 

Primary Contact Emailsewilliams412@carlow.edu 

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