VenueCarlow University  

Date03/31/2015 

Time7:30 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCarlow University’s English Program, Creative Writing Program, and Women and Gender Studies 

Cost $0.00
 

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In honor of Women’s History Month
Madwomen Reading Series presents
The first annual reading celebrating the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
A poetry reading by Yona Harvey, Judge of the 2014 Patricia Dobler Award;
and Wendy Miles, 2014 Dobler Award Winner

Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Rosemary Heyl Theatre, Antonian Hall, Carlow University
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.

YONA HARVEY is the author of the poetry collection, Hemming the Water (Four Way Books: New York), which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. She is also the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in literary nonfiction from The Pittsburgh Foundation. Her poems can be found in jubilat, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, West Branch, and various journals and anthologies, including A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry (Ed. Annie Finch). She lives not far from where jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams grew up. Williams married the spiritual to the secular in her music, and is a regular muse in Yona’s writing. She is an assistant professor in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh.

WENDY MILES was a finalist for the 2013 Perugia Press Prize and has published multi-genre work in places such as Arts & Letters, Tupelo Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain, storySouth, The Chattahoochee Review, and Memoir Journal. The recipient of multiple writing fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Miles lives in Lynchburg, Virginia, and teaches writing at Lynchburg College and Randolph College.

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 and Gender Studies.

Primary Contact PersonSarah Williams-Devereux 

Primary Contact Emailsewilliams412@carlow.edu 

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