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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
— T.S. Eliot
Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, is proud to announce Southern California’s
newest reading series, Poetry at the Ruskin. Join hosts Kate Gale, Managing
Editor of Red Hen Press, and Elena Karina Byrne, past Regional Director of the
Poetry Society of America and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books for unbelievable performances and complimentary
refreshments every second Sunday of the month at the Ruskin Art Club. The Ruskin
Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles’ oldest cultural association. Its 1922
clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997. For more
information on the events and on our upcoming Fall/Winter season, contact Red
Hen Press.
Please direct all requests to read at the Ruskin
to Kate Gale,
Program Director for the Red Hen Press Ruskin Art Club Poetry series.
Date:5/18/2008
Time:2 pm |
| Sarah Bein , a native Angelino, received her M.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of two collections of poetry, This Quiet Sun and Instead of Indonesia , both published by Red Hen Press, and written before the age of seventeen. Her current book, entitled Thirty-Three Hats for Julia , is being released by Red Hen Press in January of 2008, and is her first work combining the topics of illness and doctoring into the medium of poetry. She is the recipient of several grants, including two Stanford University School of Medicine Arts and Humanities Scholars Grants as well as a Katherine McKormack Traveling Grant. She is one of the recipients of the Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Poetry as well as the Rainer Maria Rilke Award for Young Poets. |
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| Charles Hood teaches literature and writing at Antelope Valley College. His awards include a Fulbright scholarship in ethnopoetics as well as recognition for his photography and collages. He resides in Los Angeles, CA. |
Date:6/8/2008
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| Currently director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah, Katherine Coles teaches poetry, prose writing, and literature and directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature. Recipient of both an Individual Writers Fellowship and a New Forms Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has published poetry and prose in such journals as Poetry, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and The New Republic. Fault is her fourth collection of poems; she is also the author of two novels, most recently Fire Season. |
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| Linda Gregg was born in Suffren, New York, grew up in bucolic Marin County, California, and has traveled extensively. Her poetry collections include Things and Flesh, Chosen by the Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, and Too Bright to See . She has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and the University of California-Berkeley. She has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and she is the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award. Gregg lives in New York City. |
Date:9/14/2008
Time:2 p.m. |
| Tracy Smith |
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| Juliana Spahr |
Date:10/12/2008
Time:2 p.m. |
| Maurya Simon |
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| Annie Finch |
Date:11/9/2008
Time:2 p.m. |
| Gaylord Brewer |
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| Tony Barnstone |
Date:12/14/2008
Time:2 p.m. |
| Sharon Doubiago |
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| Eloise Klein Healy |
Date:1/11/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Geoffrey G. O'Brien |
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Date:2/8/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Mitchell Douglas |
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| Sarah Maclay |
Date:3/8/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Cris Mazza |
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| Suzanne Roberts |
Date:4/12/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Kathleen Driskell |
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| Ron Koertge |
Date:5/17/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Brandon Schrand |
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| Bart Edelman |
Date:6/14/2009
Time:2 p.m. |
| Doug Kearney |
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| Summer Wood |
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The Ruskin Art Club
800 S Plymouth St. Los Angeles, CA 90005 (map)
For more information call: 323.755.3530
Limited Seating available
Admission: General $10/ Students & Seniors $5
This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc.through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
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