Monday, March 26 th , 2007
7:30 PM
Fordham University - Lincoln Center
113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus)
12 th Floor Lounge
Free & open to the public
Reception & book sale to follow
Christina Davis received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.Phil. in Modernist Literature from the University of Oxford. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Jubilat, LIT, The May Anthologies (selected by Ted Hughes), New England Review, New Republic, Paris Review, and Provincetown Arts (selected by Susan Mitchell). The recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, she currently works at Poets House and lives in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Sharon Dolin is the author of two previous books of poems, Heart Work (The Sheep Meadow Press) and Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press), and four chapbooks. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy and a national award from the Poetry Society of America, and she has held several fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo. She is the coordinator and co-judge of the Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition and a curator of the Center Broadsides Reading Series. She has taught at The Cooper Union, The New School, and NYU. She currently teaches poetry seminars and workshops at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and lives in New York City with her husband and son.
Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson is an Associate Professor of English at University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Currently, he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Poets Out Loud at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th St., Ste. 924-I
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-6792