Join us for readings and talks by some of America's most engaging and award-winning poets. Our readings and lectures are open to everyone. Individual event ticket prices are $12 General Admission and $10 for seniors, $8 for students. Group discounts are available for groups of ten or more. Click here to Purchase tickets.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Afternoon Craft Talks:
Line & Line Breaks: Humor in Contemporary Poetry,
Denise Duhamel
The Poem, The Threshold, and Us,
Gregory Orr
General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students.
Begins at 2:00 p.m.
Kickoff Reading:
Denise Duhamel and Martin Espada
$12 General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students.
Begins at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January, 21, 2009
Festival Gala: The Gala is a fundraiser for the festival and tickets cost $250.00. Details to be advised. Cocktails & Dinner.
Event begins at 5:00 pm
Evening Reading:
Gala Reading: Anne Marie Macari, Thomas Lux and Victoria Redel
$12 General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students
Begins at 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Workshop Participants Reading I
- Free Event –
Begins at 3:00 pm
Florida Poets Reading: Kelle Groom and Michael Hettich, & Presentation of Awards to winners of High School Poetry Contest
$12 General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students
Begins at 8:00 pm
Friday, January 23, 2009
Workshop Participants Reading II
- Free Event Free Event –
Begins at 3:00 pm
TGIF Reading: Laura Kasischke & Gregory Orr
$12 General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students
Begins at 8:00 pm
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Panel Discussion: Beloved & Influential Poems
Gerald Stern, Victoria Redel, Gregory Orr, Anne Marie Macari, Thomas Lux, Laura Kasischke, Kimiko Hahn, Martin Espada, Denise Duhamel
General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students.
Begins at 2:00 p.m.
Finale Reading:
Kimiko Hahn and Gerald Stern
$12 General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students.
Begins at 7:00 p.m.
Late-Night Coffee House and Party - Performance Poetry
Taylor Mali & Lynne Procope
General Admission $12, $10 seniors, $8 students.
Begins at 9:00 p.m.
To order tickets, call or visit the Crest Theatre Box Office: 51 North Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444; 561-243-7922, extension. Tickets for individual events will be available soon, so check back at this site as we are work to make on-line ticket purchase available as early as July 2009.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR FEATURED POETS
MARTIN ESPADA, called “The Latino poet of his generation.” has published 16 books of poetry. The Republic of Poetry, received the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement. Winner of the American Book Award for Imagine the Angels of Bread, Espada also received the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, a Charity Randall Citation, the Premio Fronterizo, and fellowships from the NEA, PEN/Revson, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He edited Zapata’s Disciple, a collection of essays, and the anthologies, Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination and El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry. His work has been translated into ten languages and appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Harper’s and The Nation. Espada is a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Find out more about Martin Espada on his official website, http://www.martinespada.net.
KIMIKO HAHN has published seven collections of poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Artist's Daughter; Mosquito and Ant; Volatile; and The Unbearable Heart, which received an American Book Award. She holds a BA in English and East Asian studies from University of Iowa, and an MA in Japanese Literature from Columbia University. Hahn has received fellowships from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her awards include a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’Award, Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, The Shelley Memorial Award and a PEN/Voelcker Award. She frequently draws on, and even reinvents, classic forms and techniques used by women writers in Japan and China, including the zuihitsu, or pillow book, and nu shu, a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond. Hahn is a professor at Queens College and The City University of New York.
Find out more about Kimiko Hahn at the Academy of American Poets website: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1536.
LAURA KASISCHKE is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Lilies Without (Ausable Press, 2007), and four novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Alice Fay diCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. Her most recent novel is Be Mine (Harcourt, 2007). Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New Republic, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program and the Residential College at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and lives with her husband and son in Chelsea, Michigan.
THOMAS LUX’s latest collection is God Particles (Houghton Mifflin 2008). Other books include The Cradle Place; The Street of Clocks; New and Selected Poems: 1975-1995, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems: 1970-1975; and Split Horizon, winner of the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award. His distinguished teaching career includes twenty-seven years on the writing faculty and as Director of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence. He has taught at Emerson College, Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers, and other universities. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and recipient of three NEA grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lux holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and directs the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
ANNE MARIE MACARI's most recent collection is She Heads Into the Wilderness (2008). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and was followed by Gloryland, winner of Five Points Magazine’s James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work has been included in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and Field. A graduate of Oberlin College, she holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence. Macari is Director of the Drew University Low-Residency Program in Poetry.
GERALD STERN is the author of fourteen books of poetry including, This Time: New and Selected Poems, winner of the National Book Award. He is the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and has taught at Temple University, New York University, and University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Stern’s numerous awards include three NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lamont Poetry Prize, Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a PEN Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement.
GREGORY ORR has published ten poetry collections, including How Beautiful the Beloved, forthcoming in 2009; the book length lyric sequence, Concerning the Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved (Copper Canyon, 2005); The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems, Orpheus and Eurydice, City of Salt, We Must Make a Kingdom of It, The Red House, Gathering the Bones Together, and Burning the Empty Nests. Books of criticism include Richer Entanglements, Stanley Kunitz, An Introduction and Poetry As Survival, and The Blessing, a memoir. He coauthored Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World, with Ellen Bryant Voigt. Orr was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for Violence and Survival and received NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He served for 25 years as Poetry Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Find out more about Gregory Orr at the Academy of American Poets website: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/218.
DENISE DUHAMEL's latest book, Ka-Ching!, is forthcoming in Spring 2009. Her other books include Two and Two, winner of Binghamton University’s Milt Kessler Award, Mille et Un Sentiments, Queen For A Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize; Kinky; Girl Soldier; and How the Sky Fell. A bilingual edition of Lucky Me, (Afortunada de mí), translated by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, was just released. Duhamel is a graduate of Emerson College and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence. She has received an NEA Fellowship and her work is widely anthologized, including six volumes of Best American Poetry. She has been featured on NPR and on “Fooling with Words,” with Bill Moyers. Duhamel is associate professor at Florida International University.
VICTORIA REDEL is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her most recent poetry collection, Swoon (2003, University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her latest novel The Border of Truth (Counterpoint 2007) weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Her first novel, Loverboy, was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Her poetry and fiction has been anthologized widely and her work has been translated into 6 languages. Redel is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University.
FLORIDA POETS
KELLE GROOM's third collection, Five Kingdoms, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in 2009. Luckily, chosen for the Florida Poetry Series was published in 2006 and Underwater City, was selected for University Press of Florida’s Contemporary Poetry Series in 2004. Groom received a 2006 Florida Book Award for Luckily. Groom’s poems have appeared in AGNI, DoubleTake, Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Witness, among others. She has been awarded residencies from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Millay Colony for the Arts and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.She has received grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, United Arts of Central Florida, Volusia County Cultural Council, and New Forms Florida. She holds an MA in English/Creative Writingfrom UCF and has taught writing at the University of Central Florida, Valencia Community College, and Seminole Community College. Groom has worked for non-profit organizations, including an opera company, a homeless shelter, and an artists-in-residence facility.She lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
MICHAEL HETTICH was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1953 and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Northern Florida, Vermont and Miami, where he now lives with his family. He has published twelve books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Hettich is the winner of two Florida Individual Artists Fellowships. His book Flock and Shadow was selected as a national Book Sense Spring 2006 Top Ten Poetry Book and he received the Tales Prize for Swimmer Dreams in 2005. A new book of poetry, Like Happiness, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in 2010. He is married to Colleen and has two children, Matthew and Caitlin.
COFFEE HOUSE PERFORMANCE POETS
TAYLOR MALI is a teacher and poet and considered to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time. He led six of his seven national poetry slam teams to the finals stage and winning the championship four times. Mali was one of the original poets to appear on the HBO original series "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." He was also the "golden-tongued, Armani clad villain" of Paul Devlin's 1997 documentary film "SlamNation," which chronicled the National Poetry Slam Championship of 1996. A native of New York City and advocate of teachers and teaching, Mali spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop "Teacher! Teacher!" a one-man show about poetry, teaching, and math which won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 U. S. Comedy Arts Festival. Former president of Poetry Slam Inc., Taylor Mali makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist and travels around the country to perform, teach workshops, and for commercial voiceover work. He has narrated several books on tape, including "The Great Fire" (for which he won the Golden Earphones Award for children's narration) and is author of several books and cds of original poetry and spoken word.
LYNNE PROCOPE is a poet and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She is a founder of the New York based non-profit, the louderARTS Project Inc. and a director of its Workshops and Outreach Program. She curates the experimental performance workshop, synonymUS. She was a member of the New York's 1998 National Poetry Slam Championship winning team. Procope is co-author of the collection, Burning Down the House (Soft Skull Press, 2000) and her work appears in the Summer/Fall 2000 Drums Voices Review, Poetry Slam Anthology (Manic D Press, 1999) and How to Read an Oral Poem (University of Illinois Press, 2002). Her writing and performances were commissioned by Vision Into Art as part of Sounds by Kandinsky and Democrazy (pt. 1) at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater and the Thomas S. Kenan Institute at North Carolina School of the Arts. She is currently writing newly commissioned works for performance in the 2003 edition of Democrazy. Procope has been a featured poet/performer at venues across the U.S., including Pace University, NYU, University of Texas, Austin, Macalester College, Hampshire College, Bryn Mawr, Boston College, Amherst College and Mount Holyoke.
