Poetry on Brick Street
Poetry on Brick Street will
present Elise Paschen as the
featured poet and speaker at 6:30 pm Thursday November 3, 2011 at Black
Dog Books, 115 S. Main St. in downtown Zionsville, Indiana.
Elise Paschen is the author of Infidelities,
winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her
poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Ploughshares,
and Shenandoah, among other magazines, and in numerous anthologies,
including Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry; The POETRY Anthology,
1912-2002; Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s
Writings of North America; and A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by
Contemporary Women.
Former Executive Director of the
Poetry Society of America (from 1988-2000) and co-editor of Poetry in Motion (Norton, 1996), she
teaches in the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Currently she is a Frances Allen Fellow at The Newberry Library. She lives in
Chicago with her husband and daughter.
Her visit to Poetry on Brick Street is supported by The Poetry Foundation.
An
Open “mic” for poets will follow the featured speaker.
Future Readings:
Dec 1st, 2011 - Phoenix
Cole (Indianapolis)
Poetry on Brick Street is sponsored by Brick
Street Poetry Inc. —a tax-exempt non-profit organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3). Brick
Street Poetry Inc. also publishes the Tipton Poetry Journal and hosts other
poetry-related events.
http://poetryonbrickstreet.org