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Madison's Overture Center to feature Parallel Press poets, Sept. 23
Posted 9/21/2004
MADISON, Wis. -- Madison's new Overture Center for the Arts will feature six poets from the Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison Libraries. The readings at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, will be in the Wisconsin Studio of the center.
Participants include:
Andrea Potos, winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, whose The Perfect Day was the debut chapbook in 1999;
Marilyn Annucci, a winner in the Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Contest, and author of Luck;
Susan Elbe, winner of the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize from CALYX Journal , and author of Light Made from Nothin;
Alison Townsend, winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Award from Kalliope, and author of What the Body Knows;
Dennis Trudell, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from UW-Madison for his book Fragments in Us, and author of Marquees of Buffalo, which was featured recently on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" aired on National Public Radio; and
Harriet Brown, winner of the Atlanta Review poetry competition, and author of The Promised Land.
The event is open to the public at no charge.
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