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SUMMARY:Writers Diane Wakoski & Jerome Rothenberg
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Diane Wakoski's work has been published in more
than 20 collections and many slim volumes since
her first book, Coins & Coffins,
was published by Hawk's Well Press in 1962.
Her book Emerald Ice won the Poetry
Society of America's William Carlos Williams
Prize in 1989. Since 1975, she has been Poet
in Residence at Michigan State University, where
she also holds the title of University Distinguished
Professor. Her new book, The
Diamond Dog, will be published by Anhiga
Press this spring.
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Jerome Rothenberg
is an internationally known poet, polemicist,
translator and anthologist with over
80 books of poetry and ten 'assemblages' of
traditional and contemporary poetry, including
Technicians of the Sacred and Poems
for the Millennium. He pioneered
the field of ethnopoetics, a combination of poetic
practice and anthropological theory, and
has been a longtime practitioner and theorist
of poetry performance. His forthcoming titles
include Gematria Complete, Concealments
& Caprichos, and Retrievals:
Uncollected & New Poems 1955-2010.
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Please join us for a reading from
two of America's foremost contemporary poets
-- who are also good friends from their days
in New York City in the 1960s. This will
be their first reading together in more than
25 years.
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Parking is available
in the Stadium lot on Red Cedar Road.
The Main Library is wheelchair accessible.
Persons with disabilities may request accommodations
by calling Birdie Beckwith at 432-6454
one week before an event. Requests received
after that time will be met when possible.\n
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Price: free\n
Sponsor: Administration\n
Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library, North Conference Room (W449)
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