June Poetry Events
June 23, 2008
WORD FOR WORD POETRY
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Word for Word Poetry: Distinguished Poet Series
Gerald Stern, Save the Last Dance: Poems
Jean Valentine, Little Boat
National Book Award-winning poets Gerald Stern and Jean Valentine present their latest collections.
Gerald Stern is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award, the Lamont Prize, a Guggenheim, three NEA awards, a fellowship from The Academy of Arts and Letters and the Ruth Lilly Prize.
Jean Valentine is the current state poet of New York (2008–2010). She is the author of eleven books of poetry including ‘Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems’.
The event is FREE and open to the public. For updates and additional information, please visit the website at www.bryantpark.org. The Bryant Park Reading Room located on the 42nd Street side of the park – under the trees – between the back of the NYPL & 6th Avenue. Look for the burgundy and white umbrellas. Rain Venue: Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen 20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenue).
The link for the series is: http://www.bryantpark.org/calendar/wordforword.php
BACKSPACE WRITERS CONFERENCE
The 2008 Backspace Writers Conference (August 7 & 8, NYC) brings
together literary agents, acquisitions editors, bestselling authors, and
publishing professionals for a two-day, two-track program of workshops,
panels, and networking in the heart of the publishing world.
Keynote speakers are Mark Tavani, a senior editor at Random House, and
John Searles, bestselling author and books editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Others on the program include literary agents Richard Curtis, Simon
Lipskar, Jeff Kleinman, Emmanuelle Alspaugh, Paige Wheeler, Laney Katz
Becker, Jenny Bent, Maya Rock, Michael Bourret, Scott Hoffman, Ronnie
Gramazio, Elisabeth Weed, and Stephany Evans.
Backspace is once again offering the popular Two Minutes, Two Pages
workshops in which a pair of agents react to authors’ pages as if they
were reading them in slush, and Jeff Kleinman will do a two-hour
workshop titled, “Buy This Book!”
Cost for the two-day event is $395. Mystery Writers of America is
offering their members a $50 discount. Attendance is limited to 200, but
there’s still room! www.backspacewritersconference.com
