Next Up | Monica Youn

Poet Monica Youn, author of Barter and Ignatz, reads in the New Writing Series on Thursday, April 18, 2013. The event, which is free & open to the public, starts at 4:30pm in Stodder Hall 57 (on the ground floor of the Graduate School). A Q&A will follow the reading.

  

Monica Youn’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Tin House and in Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Her awards include the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Her books of poetry include Barter (2003) and Ignatz (2010), a series of poems loosely based on George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s-30s. She works as a media and entertainment lawyer in Manhattan and edited the volume Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United (Brennan Center, 2011).

In April 2012, Youn was the “NewsPoet” for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Listen to her “Day in Verse” here.

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The UMaine New Writing Series is sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Lloyd H. Elliott fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors College, and the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Pulp & Paper Foundation for the use of the Soderberg Center. For more information contact Steve Evans at steven dot evans at maine dot edu or at 207-581-3818.

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Next Up | Jena Osman

Poet Jena Osman, author most recently of Public Figures, will read in the New Writing Series on Thursday, April 11, 2013. The event, which is free and open to the public, starts at 4:30pm in the the Soderberg Center Auditorium (Jenness Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono.

  

Jena Osman’s books of poems include Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize).

Other publications include Jury (Meow Press), Amblyopia (Avenue B), and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press). Osman was a 2006 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule.

She founded and edited the award-winning and internationally recognized literary magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr for twelve years; Osman and Spahr now edit the ChainLinks Book series together.

Osman received an M.A. in poetry and playwriting from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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Next Up | Anna Moschovakis & Christina Davis

Poets Christina Davis and Anna Moschovakis will read in the New Writing Series on Thursday, April 4, 2013. The event, which is free and open to the public, starts at 4:30pm in the the Arthur Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono.

  

Anna Moschovakis (right) is the author of two books of poetry, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House, 2012) and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (Turtle Point, 2006), and the translator of several novels from the French, most recently The Jokers by Albert Cossery. She is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse.

Christina Davis is the author of An Ethic (Nightboat, 2013) and Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Jubilat, LIT, Pleiades, Paris Review and other publications. She is currently the curator of poetry at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

On Saturday, April 6, Moschovakis and Davis will be participating in Bibliopoetics: The Art and Future of the Book, sponsored by the University of Maine Humanities Initiative with help from the National Poetry Foundation. Their panel “Poets on Books: A Reading and Conversation” will also feature George Kalogeris and Jillian Saucier. A full program is available here.

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If you have a disability that requires accommodation for a NWS event, please contact Ann Smith in the office of Disability Support Service, 121 East Annex, 581-2319 (Voice) or 581-2311 (TDD).

The University of Maine does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, including transgender status and gender expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information or veteran’s status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies:  Director, Office of Equal Opportunity, 101 North Stevens Hall, 207.581.1226.

Next Up | E. Tracy Grinnell & Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Poets Julian Talamantez Brolaski and E. Tracy Grinnell will perform in the New Writing Series on Thursday, March 28, 2013. The event, which will be hosted and introduced by Carla Billitteri of the UMaine Poetry & Poetics faculty, starts at 4:30pm in the the Soderberg Center Auditorium (Jenness Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono. The reading is free and open to the community and will be followed by a Q&A.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011) and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press and plays country music with Juan & the Pines. New work can be found on jacket2.

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001). New and recent work is collected in the manuscripts Hell Figures, portrait of a lesser subject, and All the Rage,  and in the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (Trafficker Press, 2008) and Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3, 2008), among others. Grinnell’s poetry has been translated into French, Serbian, and Portuguese. She has taught creative writing at Pratt Institute, Brown University, and in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founding editor and director of Litmus Press.

E. Tracy Grinnell

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

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If you have a disability that requires accommodation for a NWS event, please contact Ann Smith in the office of Disability Support Service, 121 East Annex, 581-2319 (Voice) or 581-2311 (TDD).

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Next Up | Dimitri Anastasopoulos

Fiction writer Dimitri Anastasopoulos (NWS F’06) returns to the New Writing Series for a reading on Thursday, March 21, 2013. The event, which will be hosted and introduced by David Kress of the UMaine Creative Writing Faculty, starts at 4:30pm in the the Soderberg Center Auditorium (Jenness Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono. The reading is free and open to the community and will be followed by a Q&A.

Anastasopoulos is the author of A Larger Sense of Harvey and Farm for Mutes, both published by Mammoth Books. His fiction has appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Notre Dame Review and Willow Springs; his essays in Callaloo and the Journal of Narrative Theory. He lives in Buffalo, New York and teaches fiction writing and contemporary literature at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

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The UMaine New Writing Series is sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Lloyd H. Elliott fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors College, and the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Pulp & Paper Foundation for the use of the Soderberg Center. For more information contact Steve Evans at steven dot evans at maine dot edu or at 207-581-3818.

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Next Up | Orlando White

Poet Orlando White, author of Bone Light, opens the spring 2013 New Writing Series on Wednesday, February 13  with a special evening reading co-sponsored by the Honors College. The event, which is free & open to all, starts at 7:30pm in Stodder Hall 57 (on the ground floor of the Graduate School). A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Poet Orlando White

Originally from Tólikan, Arizona, Orlando White is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e.  He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Omnidawn Poetry Feature Blog, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, American Indian Culture And Research Journal, Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologized in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas and translated into Spanish in In That Round Nation of Blood: An Anthology of Contemporary Indigenous Poetry. He is a recipient of a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Residency. He has taught at The Art Center Design College, Brown University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Currently, he teaches at Diné College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona.

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If you have a disability that requires accommodation for a NWS event, please contact Ann Smith in the office of Disability Support Service, 121 East Annex, 581-2319 (Voice) or 581-2311 (TDD).

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Next Up | Franklin Bruno & Matvei Yankelevich

The New Writing Series wraps up its fall 2012 season with a reading by poets Franklin Bruno and Matvei Yankelevich (NWS F’06) at 4:30 on Thursday, November 29, in the the Soderberg Center Auditorium (Jenness Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono. The reading is free and open to the community and will be followed by a conversation with members of the audience.

Franklin Bruno (left) writes songs, and performs them with the Human Hearts and in other configurations. During the 1990s, he was one-third of the band Nothing Painted Blue. He has also released music under his own name, and in collaboration with various talented friends (Jenny Toomey, Wckr Spgt, The Mountain Goats). He also writes criticism, poems, and the occasional academic article. His books are Armed Forces (criticism; Continuum Books [33 1/3 series], 2006), and The Accordion Repertoire (poetry; Edge Books, 2012). Currently working on a book about bridges, middle eights, and breakdowns in (mostly) American popular music, to be published by Wesleyan University Press.

Matvei Yankelevich (right) is the author of the poetry collection Alpha Donut (United Artists Books) and the novella-in-fragments Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), as well as several chapbooks. He is the translator and editor of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). His translations of Russian poetry have appeared in many periodicals including Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker, and in several anthologies. He is one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse, and a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

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Next Up | Joanna Howard

Fiction writer Joanna Howard, author On the Winding Stair and Foreign Correspondent, makes her first appearance in the New Writing Series on Thursday, November 15, 2012. Howard will read from her work in the Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono. The event starts at 4:30pm and is free & open to the public, though seating is limited. UMaine Creative Writing Faculty member Gregory Howard will introduce and host the event.

Joanna Howard is the author of On the Winding Stair (Boa editions, 2009), Foreign Correspondent (forthcoming in 2013 from Counterpath), and a chapbooknd In the Colorless Round, with artwork by Rikki Ducornet (Noemi Press).

Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Verse, Unsaid, Quarterly West, American Letters & Commentary, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Tarpaulin Sky and elsewhere.  Her stories have been anthologized in PP/FF: An Anthology, Writing Online, and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. 

She has also co-translated, with Brian Evenson, Walls by Marcel Cohen (Black Square, 2009) and co-translated with Nick Bredie Cows by Frédéric Boyer (forthcoming from Noemi Press).

She lives in Providence and teaches at Brown University.

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Next Up | Mary Jo Bang

Poet and translator Mary Jo Bang makes her first appearance in the New Writing Series on Thursday, November 8, at 7pm in Little Hall 120 on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono. This special evening event is co-sponsored by the Honors College as part of their “Cultural Odyssey” programming. It is free & open to the public.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including The Bride of E (2009) and Elegy (2007), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Mary Jo Bang – photo by Mark Schäfer

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Next Up | Myung Mi Kim

Poet Myung Mi Kim, Professor of English and core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the author most recently of Penury, makes her first appearance in the New Writing Series on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 4:30pm in the the Soderberg Center Auditorium (Jenness Hall) on the flagship campus of the University of Maine system in Orono.

The reading, which is free & open to the community, will be introduced by Carla Billitteri and will be followed by questions from the audience.

Myung Mi Kim is the author of Commons (University of California Press, 2002), DURA (Sun & Moon, 1999), The Bounty (Chax Press, 1996, 2000), and Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press, 1991, 1998, and 2008). The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century:  The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions:  Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women and other collections. Kim’s collaborations include “Spelt,” with the poet Susan Gevirtz. A collaboration with the poet, visual artist, and translator, Norma Cole, appeared in big bridge #12. The composer John Zorn commissioned her to write a bilingual Korean/English text which can be heard on Zorn’s “New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands”. Most recently, she completed a commission from the Friends of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, for their annual broadside.

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