Friday, October 13, 2006

Reading at Black Oak Books

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7:30
ELLINE LIPKIN & LISA SEWELL
BLACK OAK BOOKS
1491 Shattuck Avenue at Vine
Berkeley
(510) 486-0698
blackoakbooks.com
"Elline Lipkin's first book of poems, The Errant Thread, won the Kore Press First Book Award, selected by Eavan Boland, who says of it, 'There is real verve, real invention and, above all, true craft: a writer certain of what the craft is there to do.'
Lipkin earned her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Houston in 2003 and has worked as an editor in both New York and Paris.
"Widely published in literary magazines, she has also been anthologized in The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales.
"Lisa Sewell has published two books of poems, The Way Out, and her new one, Name Withheld; Bin Ramke enthuses about it, 'Brilliantly energetic, emoti onally tough and intellectually engaging, this book is a daring, powerful kind of poetics. . . . engagement with the world-as if Emily Dickinson's transforming skills were suddenly seen as a way of saving the world.'
"She's co-editor with Claudia Rankine of American Poets in the 21st: The New Poetics (Wesleyan University Press).
"She teaches at Villanova University and lives in Philadelphia."

from Joyce Jenkins
editor@poetryflash.org
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