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I’LL DROWN MY BOOK LAUNCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER
A new launch, a new city
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER
POETRY CENTER—HELEN S. SCHAEFER BUILDING
1508 EAST HELEN STREET (at Vine Avenue)
TUCSON, AZ 85721
Friday | 10 February 2012 | 7:00 p.m.
Featuring:
Renee Angle
Judith Goldman
Bhanu Kapil
Laura Mullen
Hosted by Laynie Browne
About the Writers
Renee Angle lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she works for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her poems have been published in DIAGRAM, Practice New Art + Writing, Sonora Review, EOAGH, and in a chapbook Lucy Design in the Papal Flea (dancing girl press).
Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), and l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011), while her work has recently appeared in journals and anthologies including Fence, Mandorla, and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. She co-edited the annual journal War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino from 2005-2009 and is currently Poetry Feature Editor for the academic web-journal Postmodern Culture. From 2007-2011, she was a Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. In Fall 2011, she was the Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley.
Bhanu Kapil teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Goddard College. She is the author of four books of prose/poetry, most recently humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009) and Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011).
Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry—The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject and Dark Archive (University of California Press, 2011)—as well as two hybrid texts, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, and she has been awarded a Board of Regents ATLAS grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. She is the special interest delegate in Creative Writing for the Modern Language Association for 2012-2014 and a contributing editor for the on-line poetry movie site Rabbit Light Movies.