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Poetry at the Venice Grind
Poetry at the Venice Grind, March 11th at 7:30 p.m.
Ploughshares, which DEWITT HENRY directed for its first twenty years, and for which he received a Massachusetts Commonwealth Award in 1992, is regarded as one of the leading literary magazines in the country. Henry’s novel, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, won the inaugural Peter Taylor Prize. Jack Smith
wrote: “The novel evokes in the reader a sense for the power of the heart and will to transform one’s selfand to make claims on what’s rightfully one’s own.”
The same can be said for Safe Suicide (Red Hen Press, 2008). Henry is a professor at Emerson College in Boston. He has also edited five anthologies,
including Sorrows Company: Writers on Loss and Grief and (with James Alan McPherson) Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men. He is working on achildhood memoir and novel.
EVA SAULITIS, author of Leaving Resurrection (Red Hen Press, 2008), is a poet, essayist and biologist. She 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 Island Institute, the Rasmuson Foundation, and
in March 2007 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.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, REX WILDER has traveled extensively, and lived for extended periods in Tahiti, Normandy, Madrid, and New York City. He attended Connecticut College, where he graduated with a degree in Hispanic Studies. Wilder now lives in Pacific Palisades, California with his wife and three children. He is the author of Waking Bodies (Red Hen Press, 2006).
The Grind Gallery
12222 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90066
http://www.thegrindgallery.com
Admission is free
Seating is limited
Please arrive early
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