The Milwaukie Poetry Series Second Season!
A reading by Mary Szybist
7 PM, Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Pond House in Milwaukie, 2215 SE Harrison
Adjacent to the Ledding Library
The Milwaukie Poetry Series Committee and the Ledding Library of Milwaukie
are delighted to continue the Second Season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series with a
reading by Mary Szybist. This will take place on Wednesday, March.11, 2009 at 7 PM in
the Pond House adjacent to the Ledding Library, 2215 SE Harrison, Milwaukie, OR 97222.
Mary collection of poems, Granted, was published in 2003 by Alice James Books,
and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have recently appeared
in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Iowa Review, Best
American Poetry 2008, The Kenyon Review, and other journals.
She is the recipient of a 2009 fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts, and was selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan for a Witter Bynner Fellowship in
Poetry from the Library of Congress. You can get more information and
hear an audio at www.lclark.edu. She is at work on her second book of poems, tentatively
titled Incarnadine, which will be supported by the NEA fellowship.
Mary is an assistant professor of English at Lewis and Clark College. She grew up
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Virginia and
the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also has taught at the Tennessee
Governor’s School for Humanities, the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’
Workshop, and Kenyon College
The Pond House in Milwaukie is a delightful setting and easy to reach. It is located
on SE 21st and Harrison in Milwaukie. From Portland travel south on McLoughlin Blvd. (99E)
to Harrison St, the first light as you come into Milwaukie. Turn left and the Library is two blocks east.
From Oregon City, Gladstone and Oak Grove and I-205 from Salem, travel north on
McLoughlin to Harrison, turn right and go two blocks east again to the Library.
From East Multnomah and Clackamas Counties, go west on Hwy. 224 to the Harrison St. Exit,
turn left and go approximately ½ mile to the library.
We want to thank the City of Milwaukie for its generous support which makes the Series possible.
For information about the readings, please contact the Series Coordinator Tom Hogan at 503-819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net or Ledding Library Director Joe Sandfort at 503-786-7584 or
SandfortJ@ci.milwaukie.or.us.
It will be a delightful evening. Please join us for this wonderful reading!
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