Roger Weingarten Workshop

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Workshop Your Poetry with Roger Weingarten

Saturday April 14, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
$65 (lunch included)
Palm Springs
For Reservations & Location Phone: (760) 318 8038

Public Reading follows at Palm Springs Public Library
1:30-3:30pm
Featuring Roger Weingarten & Kate Fetherston

Roger Weingarten is the author of ten collections of poetry including Premature Elegy by Firelight, Longleaf Press, 2006; Greatest Hits: 1972-2002, Pudding House Press, 2003; Ghost Wrestling, 1997; Infant Bonds of Joy, 1990, and Shadow Shadow, 1986, all with David R. Godine; The Vermont Suicides, 1978; Ethan Benjamin Boldt, 1975, with Alfred A. Knopf, and reissued in 1987, with an introduction by Mark Jarman, Story Line Press, and What are Birds Worth, 1975, The Cummington Press. His poems have appeared in APR, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Prague Revue, and The Kenyon Review, among many others. He has co-edited six poetry anthologies, including Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience, University of Iowa Press 2006; New American Poets, 2005; Poets of the New Century, 2001; New American Poets of the ‘90s, 1991, all with David R. Godine. He edited Ghost Writing, a short story collection, Invisible Cities Press, 2001, and co-edited Open Book: Essays from the Postgraduate Writers’Conference, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. Poetry Consultant for David R. Godine, 1987-1994, he is General Editor of the Invisible Cities Press Poetry Series, and Contributing Editor for Interpoezia, an international online and print journal presenting poems in Russian and English. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Louisville Review Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Literature. He has lectured, taught and read at writers’ conferences, poetry festivals, and universities nationally and internationally. He founded and teaches in the MFA in Writing and the Postgraduate Summer Writers’ Conference at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University.

Kate Fetherston’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Hunger Mountain, Artful Dodge, and Drexel Online Journal, Third Coast and Crying Sky. Essays on translation have appeared in Poetry Miscellany and Interpoezia. She co-edited (with Craig Crist-Evans and Roger Weingarten) Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience published by the University of Iowa Press in 2006. She’s co-editor (with Roger Weingarten) of Open Book: Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writer’s Conference, forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The recipient of a Vermont Arts Council grant, Kate has an MFA from Vermont College, and is currently at work on her first book of poems. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation