[Yale-readings] TODAY: Poetry Reading by Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth Willis, 4:00 pm @ Beinecke
Nancy Kuhl
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Tue Feb 22 08:16:27 EST 2005
YALE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE READING SERIES
Please join us for a poetry reading by poets Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth
Willis on Tuesday, February 22, at 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street. A reception will follow; this event is
free and open to the public. For additional information about the Yale
Collection of American Literature Reading Series please contact Nancy Kuhl
at 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl at yale.ed
Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The
Disparities, and Partisans. His work has recently appeared in Best American
Poetry, 2004 and War and Peace. His poetry has been translated into
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He was recently a
participant in "Poetry & Empire, Post-Invasion Poetics" at the University
of Pennsylvania, "Societies of American Poetry: Dissenting Practices" at
Georgetown University, and "Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics
and Cultural Displacement" at the University of California, Irvine. Toscano
is originally from California (San Diego & San Francisco). He lives in New
York City.
Elizabeth Willis is the author of Turneresque, The Human Abstract, winner
of the National Poetry Series, and Second Law. Willis has been awarded a
California Arts Council Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship for
Poetry and she has held residencies in the graduate programs at Brown
University, the Naropa Institute, University of Denver, and Mills College.
She currently teaches at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
For information about and examples of Rodrigo Toscano's work visit:
<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/
http://www.krupskayabooks.com/toscano.htm
http://jacketmagazine.com/28/schw-tosc.html
For information about and examples of Elizabeth Willis's work visit:
<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_2_1999/current/new-writing/willis.html
http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Elizabeth_Willis.html
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