BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 RDATE:20120311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 RDATE:20121104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121026T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121026T173000 LOCATION:Hoffman Art Gallery GEO:45.45054;-122.668438 SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading by D. A. Powell DESCRIPTION:Join us for homecoming weekend and a reading by award winning poet D. A. Powell. Free and open to the public. \;D. A. Powell's boo ks include Tea\, Lunch\, Cocktails and Chronic. Chronic was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Los Angeles Times\, The Kansas City Sta r\, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for both the Publishers Triangle an d the National Book Critics Circle Awards\, the volume of political and p ersonal poems went on to receive the Northern California Book Award and t he Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Commonwealth Club. Additional ly\, Chronic received the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry from Claremont C ollege and was Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \ ; Critic Stephen Burt\, writing in the New York Times\, said of D. A. Po well "No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no p oet as original is this accessible." Powell's work appears in numerous a nthologies\, including Norton's American Hybrid\, Legitimate Dangers: Poe ts of the New Century and two volumes of Best American Poetry. His recent poems appear in The New Republic\, Granta\, American Poetry Review and A Public Space. With David Trinidad and a cast of hundreds\, Powell is co- author of By Myself: An Autobiography (Turtle Point\, 2009). \; In 1 995\, with Katherine Hazzard\, D. A. Powell co-founded and edited Electro nic Poetry Review\, a pioneer cyberspace journal\, which published work f rom an aesthetically broad field of contemporary poets\, including Louise Glück\, Heather McHugh\, James Tate\, Claudia Rankine\, Brenda Hillman\ , Carol Frost\, Carl Phillips and Campbell McGrath. He now co-edits Lo-Ba ll with poet T. J. Difranceso. D. A. Powell's honors have included fello wships from the Millay Colony\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener Foundation. In 2010\, he wa s Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Poet. And in 2011\, Powell gave the Theodore R oethke Memorial Reading at University of Washington. A former Briggs-Cop eland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Col umbia University\, The Iowa Writers' Workshop\, Davidson College and New England College. He teaches at University of San Francisco.Of Powell's la test volume\, Elissa Schappelle wrote in Vanity Fair's "Hot Type\," "With his typical wry eroticism\, an eagle eye for the places where men conver ge\, and a compass that points always to desire\, poet D. A. Powell leads us on a tour through aUseless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, from gay bars to bathhouses and into the backwoods."Useless Landscape\, or A Guid e for Boys is Powell's fifth collection of poems. \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for homecoming weekend and a re ading by award winning poet D. A. Powell. Free and open to the public. 60\;
D. A. Powell's books include Tea\, < em>Lunch\, Cocktails and Chronic. Chronic was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Los Angeles Times \, The Kansas City Star\, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for both the Publishers Triangle and the National Book Critics Circle Awards\, the volume of political and personal poems went on to rec eive the Northern California Book Award and the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Commonwealth Club. Additionally\, Chronic receiv ed the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry from Claremont College and was Fina list for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \;
Critic Stephen Burt\, writing in the < em>New York Times\, said of D. A. Powell "No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessib le."
Powell's work appears in numerous anthologies\, including No rton's American Hybrid\, Legitimate Dangers: Poets of the Ne w Century and two volumes of Best American Poetry. His rece nt poems appear in The New Republic\, Granta\, Amer ican Poetry Review and A Public Space. With David Trinidad and a cast of hundreds\, Powell is co-author of By Myself: An Autobio graphy (Turtle Point\, 2009).&# 160\;
In 1995\, with Katherine Hazzard\, D. A. Powell co-f ounded and edited Electronic Poetry Review\, a pioneer cyberspac e journal\, which published work from an aesthetically broad field of con temporary poets\, including Louise Glück\, Heather McHugh\, James Tate\, Claudia Rankine\, Brenda Hillman\, Carol Frost\, Carl Phillips and Campb ell McGrath. He now co-edits Lo-Ball with poet T. J. Difranceso.
D. A. Powell's honors have included fellowships from the Millay Colony\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener Foundation. In 2010\, he was Harvard's Phi Beta Ka ppa Poet. And in 2011\, Powell gave the Theodore Roethke Memorial Reading at University of Washington.
A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer i n Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Columbia University \, The Iowa Writers' Workshop\, Davidson College and New England College. He teaches at University of San Francisco.
Of Powell's latest volume\, Elissa Schappelle wrote in Vani ty Fair's "Hot Type\," "With his typical wry eroticism\, an eagle eye for the places where men converge\, and a compass that points always to desi re\, poet D. A. Powell leads us on a tour through aUseless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, from gay bars to bathhouses and into the b ackwoods."
Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys is Powell's fifth collection of poems. \;
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