THREE POETS: WILLIAM ARCHILA, TERRY WOLVERTON, and LYNNE THOMPSON

Start: 11/08/2009 5:00 pm

End: 11/08/2009 6:00 pm

Terry Wolverton

The Art of Exile (Bilingual Press) by William Archila

Shadow and Praise (Main Street Rag) by Terry Wolverton

Beg No Pardon (Perugia Press) by Lynne Thompson

Three wonderful local poets will read from their recent work!

William Archila was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have been published in The Georgia Review, AGNl, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, and Portland Review, among others. He is a PEN Center USA West Emerging Voices fellow. In his first book, The Art of Exile, Archila asks readers to engage with a subject seldom explored in American poetry: the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s and its impact on Central American immigrants who now claim this country as home. The Art of Exile is the recent winner of the Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center. "A poet of the heart and head, of the personal and public, at times William Archila's poignant poems make me hear and feel an echo of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo." --from the introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize winner.

Terry Wolverton is a local poet and novelist who founded Writers at Work, a creative writing center, where she continues to teach. She is the author of Embers, a novel in poems; Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, a memoir; Bailey's Beads, a novel; The Labrys Reunion, a novel; and two collections of poetry: Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. She has also edited fourteen compilations of literary work.

Lynne Thompson’s first full-length manuscript, Beg No Pardon, was the winner of the 2007 Perugia Press First Book Award as well as the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Thompson is a frequent reader on the national scene and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Poetry International and Spillway.

The Art of Exile (Paperback)

By William Archila

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9781931010528
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Published: Bilingual Press/Editorial Biling-Ue, 5/2009