VenueCarlow University  

Date04/05/2018 

Time7:30 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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

A POETRY READING BY
Bruce Weigl, John Amen, and Stefan Lovasik

Thursday, April 5, 2018
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.

Bruce Weigl is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including The Abundance of Nothing (2012), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, The Unraveling Strangeness (2002), Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems (1999), After the Others (1999), and Song of Napalm (1988), which was also nominated for a Pulitzer. He has also written several collections of critical essays, has published translations of Vietnamese and Romanian poetry, and has also edited or co-edited several anthologies of war poetry, including Writing Between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences (1997) and Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948–1993; A Bilingual Collection (1998). Weigl’s own poetry has been widely anthologized, including in Best American Poetry (1994), The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets (1985), Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993), and American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006).

Weigl has won numerous awards for his work, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yaddo Foundation.

'If you are lucky, the world gives you a subject,' Weigl says. 'The day I saw that my experience in the war is what I had to pursue, I was elated and terrified at the same time. It was an enormous possibility, yet an enormous responsibility. It forced me to have to understand myself, ourselves, in terms of what we do and who we are. We do bad things to other people. We do bad things to ourselves. It’s part of who we are. There is no letting go of that. Especially if you are a writer.'

John Amen is the author of four previous collections of poetry: Christening the Dancer; More of Me Disappears; At the Threshold of Alchemy; and strange theater, finalist for the 2016 Brockman-Campbell Award. He is co-writer, along with Daniel Y. Harris, of The New Arcana. His work has been translated into Spanish, French, Hungarian, Korean, and Hebrew. In addition, he has released two folk/folk rock CDs: All I’ll Never Need and Ridiculous Empire. He founded and continues to edit The Pedestal Magazine.

Stefan Lovasik is a musician and a U.S. Army combat veteran. During the Vietnam War, he served with Special Operations Forces. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Literary Review, Folio, Gravel, Main Street Rag, Meat for Tea: the Valley Review, Offcourse, and Pedestal, among others. His first chapbook, Persona and Shadow (FlutterPress), was published in 2015 and a full-length collection, Absolution (Main Street Rag Publishing), was released in March, 2018. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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 the Carlow MFA in Creative Writing Program.

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