Major New York Poet and Editor Reads for Western Writers' Centre, Galway

galway | arts and media | event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 13:42 by Fred Johnston - The Western Writers' centre - Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude - Galway westernwriters at eircom dot net Canavan House, Nuns Island, Galway 087-2178138

Imperial Hotel Reading on April 14th

Fresh from the success of their recent 2nd Forge at Gort Literature Festival, The Western Writers' Centre is rarin' to go! Leading New York poet and editor Burt Kimmelmann will read for the Western Writers' Centre, Galway, at The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway on Tuesday, April 14th, at 8pm. Admission is free.

Poet and Editor, Burt Kimmelmann

Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry – Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992), First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), and There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007); his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009 (from Talisman House, Publishers). For over a decade he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998); and, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (Peter Lang Publishing, 1996; paperback 1999). He also edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005) and co- edited The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (2007).

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