[New-Poetry] QUEST

[amy king]

Thanks, Emmanuel!  Glad you enjoyed the issue as well as the interview -- and thank you for posting about it on your blog!

Best,
Amy

"Sigauke, Emmanuel " <Sigauke at crc.losrios.edu> wrote:     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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 From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu  [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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 Read QUEST here  ---->    http://www.mipoesias.com/EVIESHOCKLEYISSUE/    
 
 
 Hope you'll stop by!
 Amy King
 Editor
 http://www.mipoesias.com   
 
 
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 **apologies for cross-posting**
 
 
  

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