On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 don’t miss out on the MFA Poetry Reading presented by Tabula Poetica, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Chapman University. The poetry readings will begin at 5 p.m. in the Malloy Performance Portico room in Leatherby Libraries. This event is sponsored by Wilkinson’s Department of English and supported by
On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, the Tabula Poetica Poetry Series will continue with author/poet Allison Joseph. All readings and talks are free and open to the public. Barnes & Noble will have poets’ books available for sale at the events. 2:30 p.m. Poetry Talk “Dispatches from a Poetry Editor” (AF 201, introduced by Tabula Poetica Director Anna Leahy).
If you want to open a poetry series with a bang, best start with the poet who writes “little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.” That’s how the Pulitzer Committee described the work of Rae Armantrout, who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and opens Tabula Poetica’s Poetry Reading Series