Julie Carr and Gillian Conoley
In the SME performance space of the Structural Materials Building at our La Jolla campus.
Carr is the author of six books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press), RAG (Omnidawn), and the forthcoming Think Tank (Solid Objects). She's also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive). She lives in Denver where she is the co-director of Counterpath Press. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Conoleyis the author of seven collections of poetry, including THE PLOT GENIE, PROFANE HALO, LOVERS IN THE USED WORLD, and TALL STRANGER, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and Fund for Poetry Award and is widely anthologized, most recently in W.W. Norton's new Postmodern American Poetry. A new collection, PEACE, is just out with Omnidawn. Her translations of three Henri Michaux texts, never brought into English before, will appear with City Lights in fall 2014. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she is Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University.
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