events @ the Library

Thursday, May 6, 2010
7:30 pm
McManus Room

The Theatre Artists Workshop will present a staged reading of Metamorphoses, based on the classic poem by Ovid, written and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman. The play opened on Broadway's Circle on the Square Theater in March 2002. The themes of love, the inevitability of change, and the human ability to adapt to change are timeless and resonate. Theatre Artists Workshop is a well-known troupe of professional actors, writers, and directors, founded in 1983 by state and screen actor Keir Dullea. Metamorphoses is produced by special arrangement with Bruce Ostler, Bret Adams, Ltd.

Sunday, May 2, 2010
3:00 pm
McManus Room

Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including her most recent, Sea Change (2008). She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. Graham's many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003, and she currently sits on the contributing editorial board to the literary journal Conjunctions. She is the Boylston Professor at Harvard, the first woman to be awarded this position.

Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. The Times Literary Supplement says, “One of the most intelligent poets in the language . . . [Graham] is like no one else, neither in her rhythms nor in her insistence on opening up, scrutinizing, and even reversing our experience of time and space.”

Books by Graham.

Poet’s Voice is supported by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.

Thursday, October 8
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Poet Kevin Pilkington, a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and of the graduate department at Manhattanville College, will read selections from his poetry, including his just-released book In the Eyes of a Dog. He is the author of six collections including Ready to Eat the Sky, which was a finalist for the Independent Publishers Books Award. His collection Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner and his chapbook won the Ledge Poetry Prize. A new collection entitled In the Eyes of a Dog is forthcoming. Over the years, he has been nominated for four Pushcarts and has appeared in Verse Daily. His poetry has also appeared in many anthologies including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England.

Ready to Eat the Sky in the Library catalog.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Wednesday, May 13
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Edward Pleasant distinguishes himself as an outstanding performing artist in opera and musical theater as well as in concert, recital and recording. He has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times for his “appealing stage presence” and will present the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance focusing on Langston Hughes.

Sunday, October 5
3:00 pm
McManus Room

Marie Howe is author of The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series, What the Living Do (1997), and the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and other magazines. She is the recipient of NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.

More about Marie Howe.

Poet’s Voice is supported by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.

Sunday, October 7
3:00 pm
McManus Room

Honor Moore is the author of two collections of poems, Darling and Memoir, and of The White Blackbird —a life of her grandmother, the painter Margaret Sargent, a New York Times Notable Book. Her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway, and her edition of the selected poems of Amy Lowell was published by the Library of America.

Poet’s Voice is supported by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.

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