Time for apple pickin', pie & poetry!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
7 PM
the Starving Artist
poetry by ELLEN DORÉ WATSON
creative non-fiction by BOB COWSER
poetry by PETER CAMPION
Ellen Doré Watson is the author of four full-length collections, most recently, Dogged Hearts (Tupelo Press, 2010). Earlier books include This Sharpening, also from Tupelo, and two from Alice James, We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award. Among her honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center’s Zoland Poetry Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson has translated a dozen books from the Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press), and has also co-translated contemporary Arabic language poetry with Saadi Simawe. She serves as Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College, poetry editor and translation editor of The Massachusetts Review, and is a core faculty member at the Colrain Manuscript Conference and at Drew University’s Low-Residency MFA program in poetry and translation.
Bob Cowser, Jr.'s most recent book GREEN FIELDS: Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between (University of New Orleans Press), about the 1979 murder of one of his grade school classmates and the execution of her killer in 2000, won "Best Memoir 2010" from the Adirondack Center for Writers. Cowser's first book, DREAM SEASON, published in 2004 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, was a New York Times Book Review "Editor's Choice" and "Paperback Row" selection and was listed among the Chronicle of Higher Education's best-ever college sports books. He is also the author of SCOREKEEPING, a collection of coming-of-age essays published in October 2006 by the University of South Carolina Press, and editor of WHY WE'RE HERE: NEW YORK ESSAYISTS ON LIVING UPSTATE, published by Colgate University Press in 2010. Cowser's work has appeared widely in American literary magazines, including River Teeth, Fourth Genre, The Pinch, the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Brevity, Sonora Review and Creative Nonfiction. He is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University, where he teaches courses in nonfiction writing and later American literature, and an Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty Member with Ashland University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program. He also serves as associate editor of RIVER TEETH: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.
Peter Campion is the author of two collections of poems, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009), both from The University of Chicago Press. He's also published a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson (Terrence Rogers Fine Art, 2004.) His poems and prose have appeared recently in AGNI, ArtNews, The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, Poetry, Slate, and the Threepenny Review. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Joseph Brodksy Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. He teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Minnesota.
