[New-Poetry] Apr. 9: Alice Notley, Rachel Zucker at Columbia College Chicago

[Tony Trigilio]

ALICE NOTLEY & RACHEL ZUCKER
ELMA STUCKEY MEMORIAL READING
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 5:30 p.m.

Music Center Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
For more information:  (312) 344-8819

Free and open to the public

RACHEL ZUCKER is the author of three books of poetry: THE BAD WIFE
HANDBOOK, THE LAST CLEAR NARRATIVE, and EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD.  She
is co-editor, along with poet Arielle Greenberg, of WOMEN POETS ON
MENTORSHIP: EFFORTS AND AFFECTIONS, which will be published by the
University of Iowa Press in 2008. Zucker was the poet in residence at
Fordham University and has taught at Yale and NYU. She is also a
certified labor doula.  For more information please visit
www.rachelzucker.net.

ALICE NOTLEY was born in 1945 and educated at Barnard College and at
The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa.  During the late 60s and
early 70s she lived a traveling poet’s life (San Francisco, Bolinas,
London, Wivenhoe, Chicago) before settling on New York’s Lower East
Side and becoming an important figure in the second-generation New
York School. Notley, who has resided in Paris for the past fifteen
years, is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry
including the epic poem THE DESCENT OF ALETTE, and MYSTERIES OF SMALL
HOUSES, one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner
of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.  Notley’s long poem
DISOBEDIENCE won the Griffin International Prize in 2002. In 2005 the
University of Michigan Press published her book of essays on poetry,
COMING AFTER.  Notley recently edited THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TED
BERRIGAN, with her sons Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan as
co-editors.  Her most recent books are ALMA, OR THE DEAD WOMEN, from
Granary Books, GRAVE OF LIGHT:  NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, from Wesleyan,
and IN THE PINES from Penguin in 2007.

Sponsored by the English Department of Columbia College Chicago, the
annual Elma Stuckey Memorial reading honors the poet Elma Stuckey,
author of THE BIG GATE (1976) and THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ELMA STUCKEY
(1987).