FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 1, 2005

CONTACT: Daniel Finney, (515) 271-2833, daniel.finney@drake.edu

TWO POETS TO SPEAK AT DRAKE WRITERS AND CRITICS SERIES

Poets Anne Boyer and Lisa Jarnot will read from their work and discuss poetry at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, as part of the Drake University Writers and Critics Series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Cowles Library Reading Room, 28th Street and University Avenue.

Boyer’s poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly, TYPO, New Letters, Konundrumg Engine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Octopus and other journals. A chap-length selection of her work is forthcoming in 2006 in Narwhal. Boyer, who has lived in Des Moines since 2002, also writes lyric prose and short fiction and edits the micro-press Sodear.

Jarnot has edited two small magazines – No Trees and Troubled Surfer – as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and “An Anthology of New American Poetry.” She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: “Some Other Kind of Mission,” “Ring of Fire” and “Black Dogs Songs.” Her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University of California Press. Jarnot lives in New York City and teaches at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Long Island University and Brooklyn College.

For more information, contact Dina Smith at (515) 271-3127 or dina.smith@drake.edu.

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