Poetry Readings at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Please join the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 3rd floor, Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College for the final poetry readings in the Rockwell Hall galleries:
Poetry Reading by Karen Sands-O'Connor and Jennifer Ryan
Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Karen Sands-O’Connor is a person-of-all-work at Buffalo State College. Having been hired to teach children’s literature, she has gone on to teach 18 different courses at the college. This eclecticism extends also to her writing. Although she has a degree in writing for children, it is her adult poetry that editors have preferred! Her poetry has appeared in the British poetry journal, Orbis, and is forthcoming in the Buffalo Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose about Buffalo, edited by Tom Waters and Alycia Ripley.
Jennifer Ryan is an assistant professor of English and the Coordinator of the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Unit at Buffalo State College. She received her MA and Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa, where she specialized in experimental poetics, African-American literature, and feminist theory. She has published articles in Women and Performance, Feminist Teacher, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her latest article, Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping News, is forthcoming in a collection of essays entitled The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx. She is also at work on a book, Post-Jazz Poetics: African American Women Writing Sound, that examines a particular strand of African American feminist poetry. She has published creative work in Pudding Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Solo Cafe.
Poetry Reading by Ethan Paquin
Sunday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Ethan Paquin's books of poetry are My Thieves (Salt, 2007); The Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2005), which was runner-up for the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Accumulus (Salt, 2003); and The Makeshift (UK: Stride, 2002). His poems have been anthologized in French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (Louisiana Literature Press, 2007), Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry (Autumn House Press, 2006), Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2005), and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2002). He teaches at Medaille College.
Poetry Reading by Karen Sands-O'Connor and Jennifer Ryan
Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Karen Sands-O’Connor is a person-of-all-work at Buffalo State College. Having been hired to teach children’s literature, she has gone on to teach 18 different courses at the college. This eclecticism extends also to her writing. Although she has a degree in writing for children, it is her adult poetry that editors have preferred! Her poetry has appeared in the British poetry journal, Orbis, and is forthcoming in the Buffalo Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose about Buffalo, edited by Tom Waters and Alycia Ripley.
Jennifer Ryan is an assistant professor of English and the Coordinator of the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Unit at Buffalo State College. She received her MA and Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa, where she specialized in experimental poetics, African-American literature, and feminist theory. She has published articles in Women and Performance, Feminist Teacher, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her latest article, Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping News, is forthcoming in a collection of essays entitled The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx. She is also at work on a book, Post-Jazz Poetics: African American Women Writing Sound, that examines a particular strand of African American feminist poetry. She has published creative work in Pudding Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Solo Cafe.
Poetry Reading by Ethan Paquin
Sunday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Ethan Paquin's books of poetry are My Thieves (Salt, 2007); The Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2005), which was runner-up for the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Accumulus (Salt, 2003); and The Makeshift (UK: Stride, 2002). His poems have been anthologized in French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (Louisiana Literature Press, 2007), Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry (Autumn House Press, 2006), Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2005), and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2002). He teaches at Medaille College.
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