Poetry Center San Jose Presents
Poetry Reading at Willow Glen Library
Featuring Robert Sward
- When
- Thu Jan 17, 2013
- Where
- Willow Glen Branch Library
- Time
- 7:00PM
- Tags
- Arts, Literary Arts
Description
Poetry Center San Jose (PCSJ) announces a poetry reading and discussion by poet Robert Sward at the Willow Glen Library. An open mic will follow the featured reading.Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow, he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada), now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2011, is being published by Red Hen Press.
Born and raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada. Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria Alford.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.pcsj.org
- Contact Form (account required)
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