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SUMMARY:Robert Hass + David Koehn
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 1st for a reading and conversation with Robert Hass & David Koehn to benefit Omnidawn.\n\nRobert Hass​’s​ books of poetry include Time and Materials\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood\, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise\, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz’s poetry\, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and\, most recently\, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984\, and Now and Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns\, 1997-2000. From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife\, the poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nDavid Koehn’s first full length manuscript\, Twine\, now available from Bauhan Publishing\, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David’s poetry and translations were previously collected in two chapbooks\, Tunic\, (speCt! books 2013) a small collection of some translations of Catullus\, and Coil (University of Alaska\, 1998)\, winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. Omnidawn just released Compendium\, a collection of Donald Justice’s take on prosody. David’s second full-length collection\, Scatterplot\, is due out from Omnidawn in 2020. David’s writing has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines including Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rhino\, Volt\, Carolina Quarterly\, New York Quarterly\, Diagram\, McSweeney’s\, The Greensboro Review\, and many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-david-koehn/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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