Nationally-acclaimed poet Joan Larkin will be enjoying a brief residency at the Brighton Campus from October 23-24, 2014. On Thursday, October 23, Larkin will read in the MCC Forum from 7-8pm. A book signing will follow. This event is free and open to the college and members of the community. On October 24, the poet will present a poetry workshop in 8-200, from 12-12:50pm. This event is free and open to members of the college community. Both events are sponsored by MCC’s Creative Arts Committee.
Joan Larkin’s My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press) received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times has called Larkin’s voice “unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed. . . . This is poetry without pity, in which despair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace.” Larkin’s previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (co-translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of the Lambda Award for poetry. Another collection, Blue Hanuman (Hanging Loose Press), was released in 2014. Larkin co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books as part of the feminist literary explosion of the 1970s and co-edited the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry with Elly Bulkin and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time with Carl Morse. Her anthology A Woman Like That was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda prizes for nonfiction in 2000. Larkin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and, most recently, from the Academy of American Poets. She has a B.A. degree from Swarthmore, an M.A. in English from the University of Arizona, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. She has served on the writing faculties of Brooklyn, Sarah Lawrence, Goddard, and New England Colleges and as Distinguished Visiting Poet at Columbia College Chicago and Wichita State University.
Please contact Tony Leuzzi for further inquiries about either event.
Tony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy
10/14/2014 |