Writing Matters and The Nineteenth Century Charitable Association Presents: A Poet and a Novelist Walk Into a Bar…
The Nineteenth Century Club 178 Forest Avenue Oak Park, IL 60301 United States 7083862729 View additional information
Sunday, March 14, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
Category: Special Events- Open to the Public
Join us for a conversation between author Elizabeth Berg and poet Barbara Crooker, whose poems have appeared in magazines such as The Sun, The Hollins Critic, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, and anthologies such as The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking Penguin), Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press), and Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press). She is the recipient of the Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, nineteen residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; two residencies at the Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France; and two residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. To register for this free webinar, click https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d__k_B_bQtmupyThOV_3BQ A $15 donation is suggested. Your generous donations allow us to continue to provide quality programming like this one. Donate here: https://www.nineteenthcentury.org/donate
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