Showing posts with label Red Mountain Reading Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Mountain Reading Series. Show all posts

9.19.2008

RED MOUNTAIN READING SERIES - FALL 2008

Here's the scoop on this fall's Red Mountain Reading series. All readings start at 7:00 p.m. and will take place in the Lecture Hall of the Alabama School of Fine Arts in lovely downtown Birmingham.

Sep 26
"My Favorite Poem" Community Reading

TBD
Fiction Writer Wendy Rawlings

Dec 5
Poets Frank X. Walker and 2008 RMR Chapbook Contest winner Mark Smith-Soto

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2.06.2007

RED MOUNTAIN READING SERIES HOSTS POET ALLISON JOSEPH...

...this Thursday, Feb 8, on the Shelby campus of Jefferson State Community College! The reading starts at 11 a.m. in Room 211 of RSH Hall. Allison Joseph is the author of five books of poetry: Worldly Pleasure (Word Press, 2004); Imitation of Life (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2002); Soul Train (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997); In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997); and What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), which won the Ampersand Women Poets Series Prize and the John C. Zacharis Award First Book Prize from Ploughshares. Her many awards include a fellowship and a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council, fellowships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, an Academy of American Poets prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and an Associated Writing Programs Prize. She is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University and editor of Crab Orchard Review.

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