Thu 2, 7:00 pm: A. E. Stallings
Atlanta Review 10-year celebration, with Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA.
(Guest parking in Burge Deck, 190 North Avenue.)
Sun 5, 3:00 pm: Charlotte Mandel
"A Poet's Journey: From Coney Island to the Land of Canaan." DeBaun Spoken Word Series, Symposia Book Store, 510 Washington, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
Mon 6, 6:00 pm: A. E. Stallings
Reading with poet Susan Hahn at the Feltre School (sponsored by Poetry Foundation), 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, IL USA. Free, but seating limited; reservations (312) 787-7070.
Same day: Arts Club of Chicago luncheon lecture open to members and their guests only. 201 E. Ontario St; pay to park, park on street, or take El to Red Line Grand stop. (312) 787-3997.
Sat 11, 1:00 Marilyn L. Taylor
Associated Writing Programs booksigning, WordTech table. Exhibit Halls 2 & 3, Austin Convention Center. (NOTE: AWP registration is now closed.)
Sat 11, 3:00 pm: Marilyn L. Taylor
Scheduled panel, "Prosody in the 21st Century," with Tom Cable, Annie Finch, & Timothy Steele. Hilton Austin, meeting room 400/402, 4th floor. Includes:
- Ways of making iambic meter fresh, nonderivative, and unburdened of its heavy legacy;
- current and possible uses of mixed iambic-anapestic, accentual, dipodic, and falling meters;
- the function of meter in attracting interesting words and ideas to the compositional process;
- descriptions & prospects of effective rhythmical structures within stealth meters, free verse, and prose poems.
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