12:30 pm THURSDAY Mar 27, POETRY READING / KAREN AN-HWEI LEE, Visiting Poet in Residence for the MFA Creative Writing Program
<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> Come listen to the luminous poetry of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/182654601783858/" style="color: rgb(0, 33, 59); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153);"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The MFA Creative Writing Program at ODU</span></a>'S Spring 2014 <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Visiting Poet in Residence, <span class="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen An-hwei Lee</span></strong></p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 9px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Lee will give a </span> <strong style="font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">POETRY READING</strong> on Thursday, 27 March, in <strong>BAL 9024 (12:30-1:30 pm)</strong></p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 9px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> The event is free and open to the public.</p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 9px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </p> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.77199935913086px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/karen-an-hwei-lee" style="color: rgb(0, 33, 59); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153);"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/karen-an-hwei-lee</span></a></div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.77199935913086px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </div> <p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> <span class="s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen An-hwei Lee</span> </span>is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo 2012), Ardor (Tupelo 2008), a July Open selection, and In Medias Res (Sarabande 2004), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize selected by Heather McHugh and the Norma Farber First Book Award chosen by Cole Swensen for the Poetry Society of America. Her chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises, received the Swan Scythe Press Prize awarded by Sandra McPherson. A book of literary criticism, Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora (Cambria 2013), appears in the Cambria World Sinophone Series edited by Victor H. Mair, Chair of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Karen Lee has presented readings at the Japanese American National Museum, Holloway Poetry Series at U. C. Berkeley, the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University, the Lincoln Center in New York City, Seattle Town Hall, the Casa Romantica Reading Series in San Clemente, California, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Orange Book Festival, Fall for the Book at George Mason University, and the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series at San Diego State University. She has worked as a florist's assistant, mended books in a rare-book archive, grown cell cultures in a medical lab, read to children in a family literacy program, and taught music lessons as occupational therapy for mental health patients. A former writing resident at MacDowell Colony of the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony, she currently serves as Full Professor of English and Chair at a liberal arts college in greater Los Angeles, where she is also a novice harpist. She holds an M.F.A. from the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University and a Ph.D. in British & American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Lee is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.</p> <p class="p5" style="margin: 9px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </p>
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Posted By: Luisa Igloria
Date: Wed Mar 26 10:19:14 EDT 2014