Daniel Tobin, Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m.

WHEN: Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Reilley Room, Reilly Hall, Le Moyne College

The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Daniel Tobin's poems have appeared in The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, Stand, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, DoubleTake, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other journals. Among his awards are the "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Robert Frost Fellowship. His first book of poems, Where the World is Made, was co-winner of the 1998 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize. His second book of poems, Double Life, has been published by Louisiana State University Press (2004). His third book of poems, The Narrows, will be published by Four Way Books in 2005. The University Press of Kentucky published his book of criticism, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and The Notre Dame University Press will publish The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, which he has edited (2004). His work has been anthologized in Hammer and Blaze, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, and elsewhere. He has also published numerous essays on modern and contemporary poetry both in the United States and abroad. He is presently Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston.

Baron Wormser, Friday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.

WHEN: Friday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery St.

Free and open to the public.

Baron Wormser is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent of which is Mulroney and Others, as well as a guide for teaching poetry, Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Paris Review, The New Republic, and Harper's. Wormser has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He also won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry in 1996. Wormser teaches at the Robert Frost Place and the Stonecoast MFA program.

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Terrance Hayes, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m.

WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Gifford Auditorium, H.B.Crouse, Syracuse University

TERRANCE HAYES’ debut collection of poems, Muscular Music, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Whiting Emerging Writers Award, and his second collection, Hip Logic, was a National Poetry Series selection. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies of emerging writers, including American Poetry: The Next Generation and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers, and in journals such as Fence, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA low residency program. The Los Angeles Times said of Hip Logic, “His range…is that of a bold virtuoso and a fearless chronicler of character: Big Bird, Paul Robeson and Balthus all sound off in these revelatory poems.”