[New-Poetry] QUEST

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

Impressive, lots of reading content in the guest edited issues. I'm
still working my way through Mipo. Amy, I posted a response to the
Library of Congress interview at
http://vasigauke.blogspot.com/2007/08/amy-king-and-public-discourse.html

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of amy king
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:43 AM
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp, Views
Subject: [New-Poetry] QUEST


MiPOesias presents --
Guest-Edited Issue QUEST Reading 
[ http://www.mipoesias.com/EVIESHOCKLEYISSUE ]
~~ GEOFFREY JACQUES ~~ TONYA FOSTER ~~ TARA BETTS ~~ MENDI OBADIKE ~~
Hosted by Evie Shockley, QUEST Editor
Friday, August 31st @ 7:00 P.M.
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GEOFFREY JACQUES is a poet and critic who writes about literature, the
visual arts, and culture. His latest book of poems is Just For a Thrill
(Wayne State University Press, 2005). His book of criticism, A Change in
the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary, is
forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. His previous
poetry collections include Hunger and Other Poems (1993) and Suspended
Knowledge (1998).
Jacques has taught at several colleges, including Lehman College of the
City University of New York (CUNY) the University of Massachusetts
Boston, Hunter College, CUNY, the New York School of Industrial and
Labor Relations at Cornell University, and at Parsons School of Design.
TONYA FOSTER is the author of Swarm of Bees in High Court(Belladonna,
2001), WaterTables (forthcoming, Portable Press @ YoYo Labs), co-editor
of Third Mind: Teaching Writing through Visual Art. Poetry, essays,
fiction, and reviews published in various journals and magazines.
Recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, and the City University of New York. She has organized
reading series and cultural events throughout New York City, and taught
creative writing and literature courses at CCNY's Bridge to Medicine
Program and at Cooper Union.
TARA BETTS is a graduate of the New England College MFA Program and Cave
Canem. Her work appears in several anthologies and journals, including
Gathering Ground, Obsidian III and Essence. In addition to performing
and reading her work across the country, she is a lecturer at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, NJ. She recently completed her full-length
manuscript Infinite Arithmetic.
MENDI OBADIKE is the author Armor and Flesh and the librettist of the
The Sour Thunder. She works with composer / conceptual artist Keith
Obadike. Together they have received the Rockefeller Media Arts
Fellowship, a commission from the Whitney Museum, and one from
Northwestern University to create a new work, Big House/
Disclosure, an intermedia suite featuring a 200-hour long house song.
Mendi teaches at Princeton and lives in the New York area.
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766 Grand Street Brooklyn , NY 11211
(L train to Grand Street Stop, walk 1 block west)
718/387-7840
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Read QUEST here  ---->   http://www.mipoesias.com/EVIESHOCKLEYISSUE/   
Hope you'll stop by!
Amy King
Editor
http://www.mipoesias.com <http://www.mipoesias.com/>   
**please forward**
**apologies for cross-posting**

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