[Wgcp-whc] Fwd: 3-22 7pm: Elizabeth Willis Reading

[Richard Deming]

  The Yale Grad Poets Reading Series returns with our first reading of 2012, featuring poet Elizabeth Willis, this Thursday, March 22nd.  You can find more information below and at http://english.commons.yale.edu/graduate_poets/, or follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/YGPRS/.  Hope to see you there.
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> Sincerely,
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> Sarah Stone and Justin Sider
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> Department of English
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> Yale University
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> sarah.stone at yale.edu
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> justin.sider at yale.edu
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> Elizabeth Willis
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> Thursday, March 22nd at 7:00 pm
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> Linsly-Chittenden 317
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> 63 High St., New Haven
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> The Grad Poets Reading Series presents: Elizabeth Willis. Her most recent book, Address, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2011. Other works include Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006),Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995); and a book-length poem entitled Second Law (Avenue B, 1993). Her honors and awards include selection for the National Poetry Series, a Walter N. Thayer Fellowship for the Arts, a grant from the California Arts Council, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. She has held teaching residencies at University of Denver,  Brown University, and Naropa University.  Beyond her dissertation on Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics (SUNY Buffalo, 1994), Willis has written on 19th- and 20th-century poetry, focusing on the intersections of public and private life, the effects of political and technological developments on poetic production, and the relation of contemporary poets to their sources. Recent prose can be found in Textual Practice, Contemporary Literature, and XCP: Cross-cultural Poetics. Currently she is editing a collection of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place.  Willis was born in Bahrain and lived for many years in Wisconsin before moving to western New York.  She taught at various venues in New York, Rhode Island, and California before becoming Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Mills College from 1997 to 2002. Since 2002 she has taught creative writing and literature at Wesleyan University. 
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> Also coming, Spring 2012:
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> Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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> Thursday, April 19th
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> Linsly-Chittenden 317,
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> 63 High Street, New Haven
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