Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
At Occidental College, Robinson Jeffers festivities concluded with a special day of poetry readings, exhibits, nature walks, and musical performances.  

For information, visit: www. jeffersbigread.blogspot.com.



Previously: 

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones:

Poems by and in the Spirit of Robinson Jeffers

Reading #1
 

Saturday, Oct. 3rd, 3 pm

EAGLE ROCK LIBRARY BRANCH

5027 Caspar Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90041

Featuring

Sarah Maclay

Carine Topal

William Archila

Brendan Constantine

(with special guest poets Charlotte Innes and Terry McCarty)

Sarah Maclay's most recent book is The White Bride (U. of Tampa Press). Her poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including Ploughshares, The Writers' Chronicle, lyric, Hotel America, and in Poetry International where she serves as a book review editor.

Carine Topal's new book, In the Heaven of Never Before, from Moon Tide Press, features an introduction by David St. John. Her poem "The Favorite Poet, 1888" won The California Institute of the Arts Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award for 2007.

William Archila immigrated with his family from El Salvador in 1968 when he was 12 to escape the civil war. He received his MFA in Poetry from University of Oregon. His first book came out this year from Bilingual Press, The Art of Exile.

Brendan Constantine is a champion for the literary arts in Southern California. He teaches at the Windward School and is well known for his workshops at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice and for his striking live presentations. He performs his work across the United States, and has been featured at the prestigious "Newer Poets" reading at The Los Angeles Central Library. In addition to Letters to Guns (Red Hen Press), he has published six chapbooks from presses in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Guest Poets:
Charlotte Innes, writer-in-residence at Pilgrim School, will read a poem from her new chapbook, Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Spiritual Writing (2006), The Hudson Review, and other journals.

Terry McCarty's poems were included in the anthologies So Luminous the Wildflowers (Tebot Bach) and The Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Book Series 1998-2008 (Lummox Press). Terry was also the host of the Living Room Poetry series in Canoga Park from 2005-2006, as well as the Poetry at Coffee Junction reading in Tarzana during 2007.

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones:
Poems by and in the Spirit of Robinson Jeffers

Reading #2
Co-Sponsored by Southern California Historical Society
and Lummis Day

Saturday, Oct. 10th, 4 pm
EL ALISAL/LUMMIS HOME
200 E. Avenue 43
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Featuring
Suzanne Lummis
Charles Harper Webb
Cecilia Woloch
Actress Dale Raoul reading the poetry of Robinson Jeffers
(with special guest poet Jamie Asaye FitzGerald)

Suzanne Lummis, in a program funded by the NEA, is one of fifty writers selected to represent Los Angeles at this year's Guadalajara International Book Fair. Her poems appear in California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday Books), Poems of the American West (Knopf), Place as Purpose: Poetry of the Western States (Autry/Sun & Moon), and in major literary publications in the U.S. and U.K.

Charles Harper Webb's latest book, out this fall, is Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, from U. of Pittsburgh Press. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New Century. He is the editor of Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, co-editor with Suzanne Lummis of Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, as well as recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a licensed psychotherapist and worked as a professional singer and guitarist for many years.

Cecilia Woloch is the author of four award-winning collections of poems, most recently Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press 2006 Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Carpathia, newly available from BOA Editions, Ltd, is her fifth book.

Dale Raoul plays Maxine Fortenberry—a mother concerned that her son is dating a vampire—in HBO's hit series True Blood. She's appeared in many other groundbreaking television series, including Friends, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under and The Office. She has also appeared onstage at many theatres, including the Old Globe in San Diego, the Pasadena Playhouse, Indiana Repertory, New Mexico Repertory, Arizona Repertory and the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Jamie Asaye FitzGerald’s poetry has appeared in Hunger and Thirst, Speechless the Magazine, Poetic Diversity, MediaCake eMagazine, Ariel, LORE and Snow Monkey, and has been part of the King County Poetry on the Buses Project. She was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets College Prize and the Edward W. Moses Poetry Prize while an undergraduate at the University of Southern California and holds an MFA from San Diego State University. Originally from Hawaii, she lives in Los Angeles where she works for Poets & Writers, Inc.

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones:
Poems by and in the Spirit of
Robinson Jeffers

Reading #3

Saturday, Oct. 17th, 4 - 5:30 pm
ARROYO SECO BRANCH LIBRARY
6145 North Figueroa
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Featuring
Dorothy Barresi
B. H. Fairchild
Lynne Thompson
(with special guest poets, Erika Ayon and Judith Pacht)

Dorothy Barresi is the Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Northridge. Her books include Rouge Pulp and Post-Diner Rapture, both from University of Pittsburgh Press.

B. H. Fairchild's Art of the Lathe won several awards including The PEN Center USA Poetry Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. His next book, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W. W. Norton), received The National Book Critic's Circle Award. 

Lynne Thompson is the 2007 winner of the Perugia Press First Book Prize for Beg No Pardon. Her poems have been collected in the anthologies Voices from Leimert Park and Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets.

Guest Poets:
Erika Ayon was a 2009 PEN fellow in poetry. She's completing her first chapbook, Orange Lady, drawn from her childhood memories of working with her father selling fruit out of a cart.

Judith Pacht will read from her new chapbook, User's Guide (Finishing Line Press). Her manuscript, Vectors, was a finalist for the 2008 Philip Levine Prize and Tupelo Press competitions. She won an honorable mention in the 2007 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.