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Red Hen Press
Various Poets
March 06, 2012

Boston Court Performing Arts Center strives to challenge the audiences of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley with diverse programs in an intimate setting. Please join Red Hen Press on March 6 for an evening with award-winning writers B.H. Fairchild, Nikky Finney, Willis Barnstone, and Dewitt Henry, moderated by Tony Barnstone.

 

B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet whose most recent book, Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W.W. Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Art of the Lathe (Alice James Books, 1998), which received the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, brought Fairchild’s work to national prominence. His work has won significant awards including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the California Book Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. 
Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky, Finney authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split (Triquarterly, 2011) was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.
Willis Barnstone has received four Pulitzer nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, the W. H. Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Midland Authors Award. He has translated Sappho, Borges, Machado, Neruda, Mao Zedong, St. John of the Cross, Rilke, and many others, as well as the Gnostic Bible and the Restored New Testament. Formerly the O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is now Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He divides his time between Bloomington, Indiana, and Oakland, California. His latest collection of poems, Stickball on 88th Street, was published by Red Hen in 2011. 
DeWitt Henry, the founder and longtime editor of Ploughshares, is the author of the memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River Press, 2011). He is also the author of Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, And Meditations (Red Hen Press, 2008) and the novel, The Marriage Of Anna Maye Potts (University of Tennessee, 2001), winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. Henry has edited a number of highly praised anthologies including The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the 80s (Pushcart Press, 1984), winner of Third Annual Editors Book Award. A professor at Emerson College, Henry graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and earned an M.A. in English from Harvard University, as well as a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1971. 
Moderator:
Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won numerous fellowships and poetry awards, including the Pushcart Prize, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, and the Cecil Hemley Award. In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for his manuscript The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2007). He won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008 for Tongue of War (forthcoming, BKMK Press) and won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, in Strokestown, Ireland, in 2008.

B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet whose most recent book, Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W.W. Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Art of the Lathe (Alice James Books, 1998), which received the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, brought Fairchild’s work to national prominence. His work has won significant awards including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the California Book Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. 

Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky, Finney authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split (Triquarterly, 2011) was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.

Willis Barnstone has received four Pulitzer nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, the W. H. Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Midland Authors Award. He has translated Sappho, Borges, Machado, Neruda, Mao Zedong, St. John of the Cross, Rilke, and many others, as well as the Gnostic Bible and the Restored New Testament. Formerly the O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is now Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He divides his time between Bloomington, Indiana, and Oakland, California. His latest collection of poems, Stickball on 88th Street, was published by Red Hen in 2011.

DeWitt Henry, the founder and longtime editor of Ploughshares, is the author of the memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River Press, 2011). He is also the author of Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, And Meditations (Red Hen Press, 2008) and the novel, The Marriage Of Anna Maye Potts (University of Tennessee, 2001), winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. Henry has edited a number of highly praised anthologies including The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the 80s (Pushcart Press, 1984), winner of Third Annual Editors Book Award. A professor at Emerson College, Henry graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and earned an M.A. in English from Harvard University, as well as a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1971. 

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won numerous fellowships and poetry awards, including the Pushcart Prize, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, and the Cecil Hemley Award. In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for his manuscript The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2007). He won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008 for Tongue of War (forthcoming, BKMK Press) and won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, in Strokestown, Ireland, in 2008.

 

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