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SUMMARY:The Center for Poetry presents Terry Blackhawk in Conversation
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 Detroit-based poet Terry Blackhawk joins the Center 
 for Poetry in its annual Spring Poetry 
 Festival. Blackhawk is the founder and director 
 of Detroit 's acclaimed InsideOut Literary 
 Arts Project, a poets-in-schools program serving 
 over 5,000 youth per year. She began teaching 
 English in 1968 after graduating from Antioch 
 College, and took up writing poetry, herself, 
 when she was already teaching it to her 
 students. Terry's poetry collections include 
 Body & Field (Michigan State University Press, 
 1999), Escape Artist (BkMk Press, 2003), 
 selected by Molly Peacock for the John Ciardi 
 Prize; and The Dropped Hand (Marick Press, 
 2007). She has published two chapbooks, Trio: 
 Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press, 1998) 
 and Greatest Hits 1989-2003 (Pudding House Press). 
 Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies 
 and journals, including Marlboro Review, 
 Michigan Quarterly Review, Florida Review, 
 Borderlands, Artful Dodge, The MacGuffin 
 and Nimrod. Her essays have been published in 
 Review Revue, An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, 
 Language Arts Journal of Michigan and anthologies 
 from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 
 She was a finalist for the 2009 Pablo Neruda 
 Prize from Nimrod Press for "Out of the 
 Labyrinth" and other poems. She has received 
 many recognitions for her teaching, including 
 Creative Writing Educator of the Year from 
 the Michigan Youth Arts Festival (2008), a Humanities 
 Award from Wayne County Arts, History 
 and Humanities Council (2008), and 2007 Detroit 
 Bookwoman of the Year from the Women's National 
 Book Association. She is the recipient 
 of the 2010 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from 
 Nimrod International for her poem "Chambered 
 Nautilus, with Tinnitus and Linden." Terry's 
 latest poetry collection is The Light Between 
 (Wayne State University Press, 2012.)\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Linnea Jimison\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-1932\n
 Contact email: cpoetry@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/spring-poetry-festival.html\n
LOCATION:Snyder C204
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