F264. Make It New(s): A Reading and Conversation with Jeffrey Brown, Ted Kooser, and Connie Wanek, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press

Ballroom A, Level 1
Friday, April 10, 2015
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

PBS correspondent Jeffrey Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, and Minnesota poet Connie Wanek are masters of narrative, image, and metaphor. Through their poetry they bring forth Ezra Pound’s famous statements: “Make it new” and “Poetry is news that stays news.” This reading and conversation is that rare arch from kitchen-window views to global news, from activities as common as sharing a sandwich and canoeing a remote lake to witnessing and reporting events that grip everyone’s attention.


Participants

Moderator:

Jeffrey Brown

Ted Kooser is a two-time US Poet Laureate, a Pulitzer Prize winner, professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the author of eleven full-length collections of poetry, including Delights and Shadows and Splitting an Order. As Poet Laureate he started the American Life in Poetry project, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Nation. He has received two NEA fellowships in poetry, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council.

Connie Wanek is the author of three books of poetry, including On Speaking Terms. She is a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress, named in 2006 by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. She is also an editor of To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.

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