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Poetry at the Ruskin: Margo Berdeshevsky and Eva Saulitis
Poetry at the Ruskin, March 9th at 2 p.m.
MARGO BERDESHEVSKY’s new poetry collection, But a Passage in Wilderness, was recently published by The Sheep Meadow Press (2007/8). Her honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards, four Pushcart Prize nominations and a special mention citation in 2008. Her Tsunami Notebook of poems and photographs was made during and following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005 to work in a survivors’ clinic in Aceh. A “visual poem” series, The Ghosts of Versailles, was seen at the Parisian Galerie Benchaieb. A book of short fiction, Beautiful Soon Enough, and Vagrant, a poetic novel, are next at the gate. She currently lives in Paris.
EVA SAULITIS, a poet, essayist and biologist, received an MS in Marine Biology and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has
published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Northwest Review. She has received fellowships from
the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the IslandInstitute, the Rasmuson Foundation, and was awarded a residency at Ventspils House, a center for writing and translation in Latvia. For the past 20 years, she has spent the summers studying killer and humpback whales in Prince William Sound, Alaska. She teaches creative writing and English at the University of Alaska and through the Artist in the Schools program in Homer, Alaska. Her essay collection, Leaving Ressurection, was published by Red Hen Press in 2008.
The Ruskin Art Club
800 S. Plymouth Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
310.669.2369 or 818.831.0649
Admission: General $10
Students & Seniors $5
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