memorial for a brilliant woman

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Poetry tonight 9-6 at the University of Richmond

It's been awhile- earthquakes, hurricanes, 5 day power outages, but I'm back and ready to go with news and such:

Tonight at UR:

Honor Moore, Distinguished Writer in Residence

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall

Honor Moore has published a memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, and a biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter. The Bishop’s Daughter was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2009 the Library of America published Poems from the Women’s Movement, an anthology edited by Moore, and in 2010 the Feminist Press published her translation of Taslima Nasrin’s Revenge. She is also the author of three collections of poetry—Memoir, Darling, and Red Shoes—and her play, Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts, and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction.

HERE is the link to the rest of the year - STEVE ALMOND is coming!!!!

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