R266. Beyond Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: Far Out Poets Read Poems About the '60s

Room 515 B, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Thursday, March 31, 2016
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

This is a reading by poets featured in Far Out: Poems of the '60s, an anthology including poems by more than seventy poets who reflect on personal experiences in the United States during the culturally explosive period between 1958 and 1972. Coeditors Wendy Barker and David Parsons also discuss the process of creating the collection and read from other selections in the anthology. 


Participants

Moderator:

Wendy Barker is the author of six books of poetry and four chapbooks. Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, she has also published a selection of cotranslated poems by Rabindranath Tagore, as well as a selection of poems with accompanying drafts and essays. She teaches at UT San Antonio.

Patricia Smith's books include Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2013 Lenore Marshall Prize), and Blood Dazzler (finalist for the National Book Award). A 2014 Guggenheim fellow and two-time Pushcart winner, she teaches at CUNY/College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

Alicia Ostriker is a poet and critic, author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy, which received the National Jewish Book Award, The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems 1979–2011, which brought her a Paterson Lifetime Achievement Award, and her newest book, The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog. Twice a finalist for a National Book Award, Ostriker teaches in the Drew University low- residency MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation.

David M. Parsons, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate, has been recipient of a National Endowment of Humanities Dante Fellowship to SUNY Genesco, Baskerville Publisher's Poetry Prize, and his book Editing Sky was winner of the Texas Review Poetry Prize. He has published five collections of poems. His latest is Reaching for Longer Water.

Tim Seibles is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and most recently, Fast Animal, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2012. He is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and visiting faculty for the Stonecoast MFA program.

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