AWP: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, an annual conference and book fair is in town and some of the participants are coming out to Brooklyn on Thursday night at 8 p.m. That’s January 31st at 8 p.m.
BROOKLYN READING WORKS AND THE OLD STONE HOUSE WELCOME AWP 2008 (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs).
Come on out to Brooklyn for a a great reading. There are many great restaurants and bars right nearby on Fifth Avenue. Brooklyn Reading Works is located at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).
WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW. Starts at 8 p.m.
BARBARA CROOKER is the author of more than 575 poems published in over 1675 anthologies, books, and magazines She is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award and many more. A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me–The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press).
MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY’S collection of poetry, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, was a Word Press First Book Selection in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Bayou, Isotope, Gulf Stream, Margie, California Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, River Oak Review, and the Delmarva Quarterly as well as in the Literary House Press anthology entitled Here On The Chester. She is a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and a book reviewer for Poetry International. She is also a musician who has performed in the U.S. and Ireland.
KIM GARCIA lives and writes in Boston. Her poetry collection Madonna Magdalene was published by Turning Point books in the fall of 2006. Her work has appeared in many publications and she is the recipient of an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant.
ERIN MURPHY’S poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Field, Nimrod, The Paterson Literary Review, Literal Latte, Kalliope, and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was a Poetry Fellow. Her awards, include the 2003 National Writers Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall; a Pushcart Prize nomination; and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. She lives in Pennsylvania and teaches at Penn State-Altoona. She is the author of three books of poetry: Dislocation and Other Theories (Word Press, 2008); Science of Desire (Word Press, 2004); and Too Much of This World (forthcoming)