September 2008 Archives

Copper Nickel will host a three-day symposium presenting Alyson Hagy, Pam Houston, Teresa Jordan, Page Lambert, Dierdre McNamer, Maria Melendez, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Karen Volkman.

For more information, go here.

Dorianne Laux will read and present a workshop on Saturday, October 11th, in the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Higher Education Campus. The reading will begin at 7pm in room 444. The workshop, which is presented by the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Many Mountains Moving, with Copper Nickel, will be held in room 442 at 1pm.

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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Dorianne Laux's fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. Laux is author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, recently reprinted by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994) and Smoke (2000). Superman: The Chapbook was released by Red Dragonfly Press in January, 2008. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, Laux is the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Best of the Net. She is a frequent contributor to magazines as various as the New York Quarterly, Orion, Ms. Magazine and a host of on-line journals. For the last 13 years, Laux has taught at the University of Oregon in Eugene and since 2004, as core faculty at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, now live in Raleigh where she has joined the faculty at North Carolina State University as a Poet-in-Residence.

Our tenth issue will go to the printer this week to make our scheduled release on October 17th as part of our three-day symposium Women Writing West. We've worked now for almost a year on this issue, and we're very excited about it.

This will be our biggest issue ever, featuring work by Kristin Abraham, Elizabeth Bernays, Erin M. Bertram, Tamiko Beyer, Mary Clearman Blew, Julie Carr, Carolyn Dahl, Kelly Dafni, Amy Fleury, Carol Golemboski, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Jane Hilberry, Christina Ingoglia, Becca Klaver, Jenn Koiter, Page Lambert, Annie Lampman, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Rebecca Loudon, Sheryl Luna, Wen Mao, Maria Melendez, Eliza S. Montane, Jenifer Park, Soham Patel, Veronica Patterson, Valerie Pexton, Deborah Poe, Pattiann Rogers, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Josie Sigler, Eleni Sikelianos, Barbara Sorensen, Lenore Weiss, and Michele Wysocki (whose photographs adorn the cover)

For a limited time, you can pre-order the issue for $10 here. It will hit newsstands in the Denver metro area around Halloween, where it will retail for $15 a copy.

The Women Writing West symposium will feature readings and talks by Alyson Hagy, Pam Houston, Teresa Jordan, Page Lambert, Dierdre McNamer, Maria Melendez, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Karen Volkman. All the events are free and open to the public, thanks to generous support from the University of Colorado Denver, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, and all of our subscribers.