Poetry Reading: Avante-garde Meets Traditiona
Friday, May 29, 2015, 4:19 p.m.Georgetown Library
Poetry Reading: Avante-garde Meets Traditiona
Writing exercise included
This poetry reading focuses on bringing two creative directions together: Avante-garde and traditional poetry.
Reb Livingston, the avante-garde poet, is the author of Bombyonder (Bitter Cherry Books 2014), God Damsel (No Tell Books 2010), Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books 2007), among other titles. Her work appears in literary magazines and anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2006, Devouring the Green, The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthologyand From the Fishouse.
Reb is a contributor to Queen Mob’s Teahouse and curates the Bibliomancy Oracle. She was the editor and publisher of No Tell Books.
Judith McCombs and Don Illich of the Federal Poets will represent traditional poetry.
Judith McCombs' poems appear in Calyx, Measure; Nimrod (Neruda Award) Poetry, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner; on line in Innisfree Poetry Journal and Shenandoahliterary.org (Graybeal-Gowen Prize 2012; and her fifth book, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Fellowships, and in 2009 won Maryland State Arts Council’s highest Individual Poetry Award. She teaches at the Bethesda Writer's Center, is on the Spendid Wake Committee, helps edit for Word Works, and arranges a poetry series at Kensington Row Bookshop in Kensington, Md.
Donald Illich's work has appeared in journals such as Iowa Review, LIT, Nimrod, Passages North, Rattle, Sixth Finch, Memoir(and), and Cream City Review. He has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and received a scholarship from the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference. He self-published a chapbook, Rocket Children, in 2012. He currently lives in Rockville, Md.
Reb Livingston, the avante-garde poet, is the author of Bombyonder (Bitter Cherry Books 2014), God Damsel (No Tell Books 2010), Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books 2007), among other titles. Her work appears in literary magazines and anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2006, Devouring the Green, The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthologyand From the Fishouse.
Reb is a contributor to Queen Mob’s Teahouse and curates the Bibliomancy Oracle. She was the editor and publisher of No Tell Books.
Judith McCombs and Don Illich of the Federal Poets will represent traditional poetry.
Judith McCombs' poems appear in Calyx, Measure; Nimrod (Neruda Award) Poetry, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner; on line in Innisfree Poetry Journal and Shenandoahliterary.org (Graybeal-Gowen Prize 2012; and her fifth book, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Fellowships, and in 2009 won Maryland State Arts Council’s highest Individual Poetry Award. She teaches at the Bethesda Writer's Center, is on the Spendid Wake Committee, helps edit for Word Works, and arranges a poetry series at Kensington Row Bookshop in Kensington, Md.
Donald Illich's work has appeared in journals such as Iowa Review, LIT, Nimrod, Passages North, Rattle, Sixth Finch, Memoir(and), and Cream City Review. He has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and received a scholarship from the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference. He self-published a chapbook, Rocket Children, in 2012. He currently lives in Rockville, Md.
