C.W. Post Poetry Center
2008-2009 Program

Wednesday, October 22—7:30 p.m., Pioneer Room, Hillwood Commons

Norbert Krapf, Professor Emeritus LIU and Poet Laureate of Indiana, author of several new collections: The Country I Come From, Imagine—Indiana in Music and Words, Bloodroot: Indiana Poems.

Friday, November 7—1 p.m. Pioneer Room, Hillwood Commons. Reading by authors

The Feral Press, a small press publishing limited editions of unique poems, essays and short fiction. This will be a session in the Honors Program conference on “Creativity and Thought.” Authors include Dan Levin, Flavia M. Lobo, Diane Lutz, Dennis Pahl, Francis Poole, Tara Masih, Edmund Miller.

Wednesday, November 19—7:30 p.m., Pioneer Room, Hillwood Commons

Major Jackson, author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, will be reading with Kevin Prufer, author of several books of poetry, among the most recent, National Anthem and Fallen from a Chariot.

Wednesday, January 28—3:30 p.m. Great Hall

Join us for our fifth celebration of Poetry Appreciation Day. Members of the C. W. Post faculty and staff will read poems they enjoy—including, perhaps, some of their own and some prose as well. Come and be surprised!

Wednesday, February 25—7:30 p.m. Great Hall

Join us for a reading by two Asian-American New York poets. Lynn Chandhok, winner of the 2006 Phillip Levine Prize, will read from her first book of poems entitled, View from Zero Bridge. She will be joined by Joseph Legaspi reading from his first collection of poetry entitled, Imago.

Monday, March 23—7:30 p.m. Great Hall

An evening with two poets who are also co-editors of Hockey Haiku: the Essential Collection. Chad Davidson is the author of Consolation Miracle, winner of the Crab Orchard Prize, and The Last Predicta. He will read with John Poch, editor and founder of the magazine, 32 Poems, who is the author of two volumes of poetry: Poems and Two Men Fighting With a Knife.

Wednesday, April 15—7:30 p.m. Great Hall

Celebrate C. W. Post’s 43rd annual POETRY AWARD NIGHT with Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Yousef Komunyakaa, author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Thieves of Paradise, Neon Vernacular and Magic City.