Readings
Meet the Writers Fall Readings
Free and open to the public. Reservations Mandatory
Elizabeth Alexander Tuesday, March 2, 2010 7p.m. Reid Castle
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. She has published five books of poems: The Venus Hottentot, Body of Life, Antebellum Dream Book, American Sublime, which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and her first young adult collection, Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color. Her two collections of essays are The Black Interior and Power and Possibility. Most recently, she composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She has received numerous awards, including the first Jackson Prize for Poetry in 2007, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
Phyllis Theroux Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7p.m. Reid Castle
Phyllis Theroux is an essayist, columnist, teacher and author of the critically acclaimed California and Other States of Grace, a memoir; two collections of essays, Peripheral Visions and Nightlights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark; an anthology, The Book of Eulogies; the children’s book, Serefina Under the Circumstances; a novella Giovanni’s Light; and, most recently, The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (March 2010). A contributing essayist on the “Newshour” with Jim Lehrer, her columns, op-ed pieces, reviews and feature stories have appeared in various newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune.
Submit to Inkwell!
Submit your poetry, prose and artwork to Inkwell during our August 1 – November 15, 2010 general reading period.
Enter Inkwell’s Poetry & Fiction Competitions!
Deadline for our Annual Poetry & Fiction Competitions is October 30, 2010. Fiction Prize: $1,500 plus publication. Poetry Prize: $1,000 plus publication.
See www.inkwelljournal.org for complete guidelines.