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Authors Rae Armantrout and Joshua Clover reading

09/22/10
07:30pm - 09:00pm
Lecture, Reading, Film, Conference

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Graduate Writing presents a reading by Rae Armantrout and Joshua Clover. Armantrout is a poet whose most recent collection, Versed, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Her collection Next Life was a New York Times Notable Book in 2007. Other recent books include Collected Prose, Up to Speed, The Pretext, and Veil: New and Selected Poems. Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including American Hybrids, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. Armantrout received an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at UCSD.

Joshua Clover has published books on music, Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About, film, The Matrix, and two books of poetry, Madonna anno domini and The Totality for Kids. He has won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, two Pushcart Prizes, and been included in Best American Poetry and Best American Music Writing. In summer 2010, he inaugurated (along with frequent collaborator Juliana Spahr) the Experimental Seminar in Social Poetics, an almost-free poetry program. He is a professor of poetry and poetics at UC Davis and an editorial board member of Film Quarterly. He is currently a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, working on a critical study of poetry and political economy.

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