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Poets Move Language
Poets Move Language
Monday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.
The Geffen Playhouse, in an effort to reach out to the Los Angeles community, partnered with Red Hen Press to create our new series Red Hen’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen, hosted by Kate Gale and select moderators. Given the flowering of literature, music and theatre in this most auspicious city for the arts, we are pleased to give writers a stage to speak their voice. In the tangled palm trees and afternoon sun, some of us pause to pick up a pen, and with our pen to call for action. As the great Raymond Chandler so aptly put it, ‘When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.’ Sometimes that gun is a new way of looking at education, sometimes it’s an idea about poetry. Sometimes it isn’t a gun at all. We invite you to come through the door into our world of ideas. Welcome to Red Hen Press’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen.
Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001, she received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetrythe first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan.
Peggy Shumaker’s latest book of poems is Blaze, a collaboration of sensual Alaskan paintings and poems with the painter Kesler Woodward. Her memoir, Just Breathe Normally, was called “An entrancing meditation on absolution and memory” by Kirkus Review. Professor Emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, she teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop.
Moderator: Elena Karina Byrne is a teacher, artist, editor, essayist, and Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club and the Museum of Contemporary Art. She also works with Red Car Studios on documentaries. Her books include, The Flammable Bird (Zoo Press/Tupelo Press) and MASQUE (Tupelo Press 08).
Geffen Playhouse
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
For Tickets Call: 310-208-5454
Admission: General $20
Students & Seniors $15
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.
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