VenueCarlow University  

Date04/01/2017 

Time7:30 PM - 9:00 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
The annual events celebrating the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Saturday, April 1, 2017
A poetry reading by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, judge of the 2016 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
and
Dana Salvador, winner of the 2016 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
The Kresge Center, Carlow University Commons
Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.) | Reception and book signing following the reading.

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.

Dana Salvador’s work has been featured in the North American Review, Fourth Genre, Water~Stone Review, Cold Mountain Review, Red Rock Review, and North Dakota Quarterly, among others. Additionally, she is the recipient of a Vogelstein Foundation Grant.

ABOUT THE PATRICIA DOBLER POETRY AWARD
Sponsored by the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops at Carlow University, the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award is an annual contest open to women writers over the age of 40 who have not published a full-length book. This award is named for the late poet Patricia Dobler, who taught for many years at Carlow University, where she directed the Women’s Creative Writing Center and the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops. She is the author of Collected Poems (Autumn House Press, 2005); Talking to Strangers (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; UXB (Mill Hunk Books, 1991); and Forget Your Life (University of Nebraska Press).

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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Is this a book signing? Yes 

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