Please join us 4/28 in celebrating National Poetry Month and the closing event for Salem State’s Writers’ Series with poets:
LISA OLSTEIN & DAVID DANIEL
WHEN: THURSDAY, APRIL 28th , 7:30 PM
WHERE: MLK ROOM, ELLISON CAMPUS CENTER
Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, and Lost Alphabet, named one of the nine best poetry books of 2009 by Library Journal (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Cold Satellite, an album of songs based on her writing, was released by singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in fall 2010. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Indiana Review, notnostrums, and Glitterpony. She is a contributing editor of jubilat. With Dara Wier and Noy Holland she co-founded the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is Associate Director of MFA Program for Poets and Writers.
David Daniel was raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has been poetry editor of the literary journal Ploughshares and has taught literature and poetry writing at Emerson College in Boston. His first full-length collection, Seven-Star Bird (Graywolf, 2003) was the winner of the Levis Reading Prize. He is also the author of a chapbook, The Quick and the Dead (Haw River, 1992). His poems have appeared in such journals as AGNI, Witness, The Literary Review, LILT, Poetry East, the Antioch Review, and Post Road. His essays and reviews have been published in various venues, including The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Boston Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Journal of Country Music.
I hope you are able to attend!
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