William Olsen and L.S. Klatt
Friday, Nov. 6. 6:30 p.m. / Reading followed by Q&A
Kazoo Books II on Parkview
William Olsen is the author of four collections of poetry,
The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers, Vision of a Storm Cloud, Trouble Lights, and
Avenue of Vanishing (TriQuarterly, 2007). He is co-editor, with Sharon Bryan, of
Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande, 2003). His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and poetry awards from
Poetry Northwest and
Crazyhorse. His poems and essays have appeared in The
New Republic, Chicago Review, Paris Review, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New American Poets of the Nineties, The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and many other magazines and anthologies. He teaches at Western Michigan University and the MFA Program at Vermont College.
L. S. Klatt graduated with a PhD from the University of Georgia in 2003 and currently teaches in the English Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His first book,
Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize and was published by the
University of Massachusetts Press in April of this year. His poems have appeared in several literary magazines, including
Boston Review, Colorado Review, New Orleans Review, Field, Denver Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, and
Verse.
Interloper, winner of the 2008 Juniper Prize:
“. . . The book is a field guide for any mind exercising to learn unknown transfers and connecting combinations.” —Dara Wier
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