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Poetry Reading with Marvin Bell and Rex Wilder
Poetry Reading with Marvin Bell and Rex Wilder
Sunday, February 12, 2 p.m.
The Ruskin Art Club
800 S. Plymouth Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(310) 669-2369
Marvin Bell’s poetry has been described as “ambitious without pretension.” The most recent of his 17 books are two poetry collections, Rampant and Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. A longtime faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers‚ Workshop, he leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for the inner city program “America SCORES” collaborates with composers, musicians, filmmakers, and dancers; and teaches for two low-residency MFA programs. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bell was Iowa’s first poet laureate. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Poetry Review, and has held Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships as well as Senior Fulbright Appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. Mr. Bell has taught at Goddard College and the Universities of Hawaii, Washington, and Wichita State. He lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.
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. Waking Bodies is his recent collection of poetry published by Red Hen Press in 2006. Wilder now lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife and three children.
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