2012 LITERARY EVENTS
7 p.m. Monday, April 2: Dave Smith presented by the Georgia Poetry Circuit
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234 W. Hancock Avenue
Athens, GA
Dave Smith is the Chairman of the Writing Seminars Department and Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was previously the Boyd Professor of English and coeditor of THE SOUTHERN REVIEW at Louisiana State University. He has also taught at the University of Florida, the University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Binghamton, and Bennington College. His 18th collection of poetry, HAWKS ON WIRES, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in Fall 2011. He has also published a novel and a collection of stories, two books of essays, and his most recent book is a collection of essays co-edited with Robert DeMott, called AFIELD: WRITERS ON BIRD DOGS. Smith's books have earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and a Lyndhurst Fellowship. Two of his books of poetry, CUMBERLAND STATION and GOSHAWK, ANTELOPE were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4: Albert Goldbarth
Ciné BarCaféCinéma
234 W. Hancock Avenue
Athens, GA
Albert Goldbarth is the Adele B. Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University. He is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and three collections of essays. His Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1992, and another collection, Saving Lives, won the 2002, and Many Circles: New & Selected Essays, published by Graywolf Press, won the creative nonfiction division of the PEN Center USA's Literary Awards for 2002. His newest poetry collection, Everyday People, will be published by Graywolf Press in January 2012. Goldbarth's poetry has received a Guggenheim fellowship and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has appeared in such venues as Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, and The New York Times.
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OTHER EVENTS:
February 15-19: The Savannah Book Festival
The Savannah Book Festival will take place over five spring days from February 15-19th 2012, over the Presidents Day Weekend, in historic downtown Savannah. With the theme of "Lose Yourself in Words," this year's festival promises to beguile and entice all lovers of literature with an extended program of high-caliber authors and events. . . . more info
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