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"Angles of Ascent" Poetry Reading

"Angles of Ascent" Poetry Reading

7:30 - 9 p.m. Tue, April 10 

The Writer's Center and Politics & Prose launch a poetry Series at TWC with a reading by poets Kyle Dargan, Gregory Pardio, and A.B. Spellman. This is the first in what will become a series of special poetry programs presented in partnership by The Writer's Center and Politics & Prose. 

Kyle Dargan is author of three collections of poems, Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis (University of Georgia Press, 2010), Bouquet of Hungers (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and The Listening (University of Georgia Press, 2004), winner of the Cave Canem Prize.  His poems have also appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore, Callaloo, and other journals.  He is an assistant professor of literature at American University and editor of Post No Ills Magazine (online), which he founded in 2008.  In 2008, he won the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and he was selected as the 2007 Drew Darrow Memorial Reader at Bucknell University.

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Gregory Pardlo is an associate editor of Callaloo, graduated from Rutgers University (1999) and received the MFA in poetry from New York University in 2001.  He is author of Totem (APR, Copper Canyon, 2007), winner of the APR/Honickman Frist Book Prize; and translator of Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace: Selected Poems of Niels Lyngsoe (Toronto: BookThug, 2005).  Pardlo  is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

 A. B. Spellman is author of The Beautiful Days (Poets Press, 1965), Things I Must Have Known (Coffee House Press, 2008), Four Lives in the Bee-Bop Business (Pantheon Books, 1966),  other editions under the title of Four Jazz Lives (University of Michigan Press) and Art Tatum: A Critical Biography (a chapbook).  He has taught at Rutgers University, Morehouse College, Harvard University, and other institutions.  He also worked for several years for the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Location: 4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
(for GPS use Chevy Chase)

General Admission $5

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