This Weekend: Theodre Roethke Centennial Celebration

This Saturday and Sunday there are a number of events to celebrate the Theodore Roethke Centennial. You can read about it in the Saginaw News here, and see a full list of events (copied & pasted from the News below):

Friends of Theodore Roethke
Centennial Year Celebration

* 1 p.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, May 30, Children's Zoo at Celebration Square Amphitheater, 1730 S. Washington Ave. in Saginaw.

Bay Arenac Reading Council in collaboration with Friends of Theodore Roethke present "Party at the Zoo" by Theodore Roethke with children's activities and other Roethke children's poetry.

* 7 p.m. Saturday, May 30, First Presbyterian Church, 121 S. Harrison in Saginaw.

David Wagoner reads his play "First Class," a one-act piece spotlighting Roethke's poetic teaching style and creative life. Wagoner was a Roethke student at Penn State and later a colleague at the University of Washington in Seattle.

* 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 31, Andersen Enrichment Center, 120 Ezra Rust Drive in Saginaw

From 1-3 p.m., Wagoner leads a poetry workshop (Space is limited. Reserve a spot by e-mailing GloNJ@aol.com).

From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Roethke Rouse, a reading of Roethke's poems.

From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., poets-in-residence Rosie King, a Saginaw native, and David Wagoner will read their poetry.

Ongoing: a book fair featuring Michigan poets and presses; a film chronicling the work and mission of the Friends of Theodore Roethke; a reception honoring seniors and students who participated in oral history collection project entitled Historic Perspectives of Roethke's Saginaw

* 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, May 31, Court Street Bridge Walk.

A walk across the bridge spanning the Saginaw River while poets conclude the final read of the Roethke Rouse.

* 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, May 31, dinner buffet at Jake's Old City Grill, 100 S. Hamilton in Saginaw.

Michigan poets will read from their works as well King and Wagoner.

The cost of the buffet dinner is $30 for non-students and $15 for students. Call 280-6765 for reservations.

2008 Attention Span

My 2008 Attention Span picks are up here.  I remember after I submitted the list thinking of more books I should have had on the list...

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I am temporarily addressless effective immediately.  Please do not send me anything in the mail.  Thanks!

Tomorrow Night, Fever or No Fever

I will be reading at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center with Mart Hart and Roy Seeger.  Here are the details:

KBAC Poets in Print

Matt Hart, Gina Myers, & Roy Seeger

Host:	KBAC
Type:	Music/Arts - Listening Party
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Kalamazoo Book Arts Center -- Park Trades Building
Street:	326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103 A
City/Town:	Kalamazoo, MI
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Phone:	2693734938
Email:	info@kalbookarts.org

Description

Poetry Reading featuring Matt Hart, Gina Myers, & Roy Seeger

A limited edition broadside designed by Jeff Abshear will be available for sale.

Free and open to the public.

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Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and YOU ARE MIST (MOOR Books), as well as the chapbooks, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006), and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007). Additionally, a collaborative chapbook, Deafening Leafening, with poet Ethan Paquin, has just been published by Pilot Books. His poems and reviews have appeared in many print and online journals, including Coldfront, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Jubilat, and Octopus. He lives and teaches in Cincinnati where he edits Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety.

Gina Myers currently lives in Saginaw, MI, where she makes books for Lame House Press & co-edits the tiny with Gabriella Torres. Her book, A Model Year, is forthcoming from Coconut Books in July 2009.

Roy Seeger earned his M.A. in poetry from Ohio University in 2000 and his M.F.A in poetry from Western Michigan University in 2005. He is currently a Full English Professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken where he lives with his wife, the poet Amanda Rachelle Warren, and their small gray dog, Bruce. His chapbook, The Garden of Improbable Birds (2007) is available through Gribble Press, and his poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, 32 Poems, Mississippi Review, Verse, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Southeast Review, Quarter After Eight as well as other journals. His first book, The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds, is available through Main Street Rag.

Three Things

1.)  My review of Adrienne Rich's newest collection of essays, A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society 1996 - 2008, is in the new issue of BookSlut.  You can read it here.

2.)  My contribution, "This is what a [post]feminist [poet]" looks like," for the feminist poetics forum at Delirious Hem is up here.  There have been really wonderful contributions to the forum.  I highly recommend reading all of the pieces.

3.)  A new issue of Review Magazine dropped today with my feature on Rumbleville, which you can also read online here.