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Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker Poetry Reading
Allison Joseph Poetry Reading
Aliki Barnstone Poetry Reading
Creative Nonfiction Week with Tracy Kidder and others
Karen Volkman Poetry Reading
David Trinidad and Jeffery Conway Poetry Reading

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Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker
Poetry Reading
Thursday, Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater 
600 South Michigan Avenue

Arielle Greenberg is the author of Given, a collection of poems, and of the chapbook Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials. She is co-editing, with Rachel Zucker, an anthology of American women poets, Writing Under the Influence, and is the author of a forthcoming composition anthology on youth subcultures. She is a new member of the Poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago.

Rachel Zucker's first full-length poetry collection is Eating in the Underworld, a series of poems that follows the narrative arc of the myth of Persephone. Her second collection, The Last Clear Narrative, a cross-examination of marriage and motherhood, is forthcoming in 2005. Her poems have been published in many journals, and in 2002 she won the Center for Book Arts Award for her long poem, Annunciation, which was published as a limited edition chapbook.

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Allison Joseph Poetry Reading
Thursday, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall 
1014 South Michigan Avenue

Allison Joseph's books of poems include Imitation of Life, In Every Seam, Soul Train, and What Keeps Us Here. Her newest book, Worldly Pleasures, is forthcoming in 2004. She is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and a Literary Award from the Illlinois Arts Council. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she serves as editor for the Crab Orchard Review.

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Aliki Barnstone Poetry Reading
Monday, November 10, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall 
1014 South Michigan Avenue

Aliki Barnstone's most recent books of poetry include Wild with It and Madly in Love, and her poems and translations have appeared in many journals. She introduced and wrote the reader's notes for H.D.'s Trilogy, and is the editor of the poetry collections A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now and The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry. She is working on a new translation, One of Their Gods: The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy.

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Creative Nonfiction Week
with Tracy Kidder and other writers
Nov. 10-13
email Tom Nawrocki for more details

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Karen Volkman Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 20, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall 
1014 South Michigan Avenue

Karen Volkman's first book, Crash's Law, was chosen for the National Poetry Series. Her second, Spar, won the 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, the Paris Review, New American Writing, The New Republic, Poetry, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, and Fence. She is serving as Visiting Poet during Fall 2003 at Columbia College Chicago.

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David Trinidad and Jeffery Conway
Poetry Reading
Monday, December 8, 5:30 p.m.
Herman Conaway Multicultural Center 
1104 South Wabash Avenue

Jeffery Conway and David Trinidad will be reading from the recently published Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse. Co-written with Lynn Crosbie, Phoebe 2002 is a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve.

Jeffery Conway's poems have appeared in journals such as The World, The Portable Lower East Side, and No Roses Review. His work also appears in many anthologies, including The Brink: Postmodern Poetry Since 1965, Plush, Poetry Nation, and The World in Us. His book Blood Poisoning was published in 1995. He is also the author of, along with Lynn Crosbie and David Trinidad, Chain Chain Chain. He lives in New York City.

David Trinidad's most recent book of poems is Plasticville, and his other books include Answer Song, Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988, and Pavane. He edited Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and with Maxine Scates, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. He is a Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.

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