Spring Garden Press at AWP 2009

Spring Garden Press & The Greensboro Review will be sharing Table 455 in the Northwest Hall of the Book Fair.

Members of the Spring Garden Press Editorial Board will be reading at the following events:


Thursday- February 12, 2009
1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Waldorf, 3rd Floor. R170. New England Review 30th Anniversary Reading. (Keith Lee Morris, Shannon Cain, Brock Clarke, Natasha Trethewey, Carl Phillips, Jennifer Grotz) New England Review's anniversary reading highlights the diversity of talent that has characterized this quarterly for thirty years. Literary magazines are often fleeting enterprises, but New England Review has been publishing new and established writers since 1978. Three poets and three fiction writers who have appeared recently in our pages will read from their work. Come hear some of the voices that have distinguished and sustained this publication through the past three decades.

4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.

Lake Erie, 8th Floor.R201. University of Michigan MFA Program Alumni Reading. (Sean Norton, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Tung-Hui Hu, Nami Mun, Patrick O'Keeffe, Jason Bredle, Tung-Hui Hu) This reading will feature several notable alumni from the U-M MFA Program and will focus on the varied approaches to aesthetics that have traditionally been a hallmark of the program.

Friday- February 13, 2008
3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Boulevard Room A,B,C, 2nd Floor. F171A. Poetry and Comix. (Tony Barnstone, Bryan D. Dietrich, A. Van Jordan, Stephen Burt, Chad Parmenter) Writers whose work adapts to comic books (and their movie adaptations) will discuss how poetic form relates to the intrinsic narrative and visual form of comix, how to and whether one can unironically approach "low" culture material without risking bathos, ways in which comic book poems can be adapted to new media, and how comic books provide the mythos for our time, a common frame of reference, a manifestation of philosophical and religious themes, and psychological wish-fulfillment and dreams.

Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
BOA Editions, Tables 361-362, Book Fair. Dan Albergotti book signing.

6:30PM

"Love on the Line" Poems About Love
Location: Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Cost: Free admission
Website: http://poetrycenter.org
Poets Cynthia Atkins, Frank Bidart, Kurt Brown, A. Van Jordan, Paul Muldoon, Elise Paschen, and Robert Polito read selections from their work. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center of Chicago, The Writing Program, and The Department of Exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.