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Posted: Feb 13th, 2006 04:48 AM |
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AWP Conference
Featured Poets:
B. H. Fairchild, Marie Howe, Mark Jarman, Marilyn Nelson, Alberto Rios
March 8, 2006
Hilton Austin & Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
The Academy of American Poets will be exhibiting in the bookfair, leading a discussion panel, and hosting a reading during the 2006 Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference in Austin, TX.
On Saturday night, the Academy will host a reading by B. H. Fairchild, Marie Howe, Mark Jarman, Marilyn Nelson, and Alberto Rios.
About the readers:
B. H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. He is the author of The Arrival of the Future, Local Knowledge, and The Art of the Lathe, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the California Book Award, the PEN Center West Poetry Award, and an award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller/Bellagio, and NEA Fellowships, and recently received the Arthur Rense Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.
Marie Howe received a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Agni, Harvard Review, and New England Review, among others. She is the author of The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Mark Jarman was born June 5, 1952, in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz , in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1976. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry: To the Green Man; Unholy Sonnets; Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Black Riviera, which won the 1991 Poets' Prize; Far and Away; The Rote Walker; and North Sea. In 1992 he published Iris, a book-length poem. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.
Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
Alberto Rios received his BA and MFA from the University of Arizona. His most recent book is The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. His awards include six Pushcart Prizes, the Walt Whitman award, NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and the Arizona Governor's Arts Award. He is a former officer of the AWP Board of Directors. He is the Regents' Professor of English at Arizona University.
Visit the AWP's website for more information and to register for the conference: http://www.awpwriter.org.
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