VenueCarlow University  

Date04/08/2016 

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorMadwomen in the Attic, Carlow University 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: In honor of National Poetry Month, Madwomen Reading Series presents
The annual reading celebrating the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
A poetry reading by Lynn Emanuel, Judge of the 2015 Patricia Dobler Award, and Amanda Newell, 2015 Dobler Award Winner

Friday, April 8, 2016
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.

LYNN EMANUEL is the author of five books of poetry: The Nerve of It, Poems New and Selected; Noose and Hook; Then Suddenly—; The Dig; and Hotel Fiesta. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Best American Poetry numerous times and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Series Award, the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets, and, most recently, a fellowship from the Ranieri Foundation.

AMANDA NEWELL’S work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, Pembroke Magazine, Poet Lore, Tar River Poetry, and War, Literature & the Arts. She has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She chairs the English Department at The Gunston School in Centreville, MD, and is pursuing her MFA at Warren Wilson 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’s and Gender Studies.

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