Acclaimed Poet to Read in Chattanooga

Acclaimed Poet to Read at Winder Binder

Bill Brown, author of five collections of poetry and recipient of numerous awards will lead off the Southern Lights Poetry Reading at Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM .



Winder Binder is located at 40 Frazier Avenue on Chattanooga ’s North Shore



Southern Lights:

Seven regional poets share the power of the spoken word:



Bill Brown grew up in Dyersburg , Tennessee .

•Five collections of poetry
•Three chapbooks
•Author of a writing textbook with Malcolm Glass
•Wrote and co-produced the Instructional Television Series, Student Centered Learning, for Nashville Public Television.
•Graduate degrees in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College and George Peabody College
•Directed the writing program at Hume-Fogg Academic High School in Nashville
•Part time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
•Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference
•Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
•Two Fellowships in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission


Penny Dyer has published work in numerous literary journals.

•2007 Oberon Poetry Prize
•2006 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry
•Pushcart Prize nomination for “Summer Storm, 1963”


Bruce Majors has published in several literary journals.

•Author of The Fields of Owl Roost
•First finalist - 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards.


Rebecca Cook writes poetry and prose and has published in many literary Journals

•Two-time Pushcart nominee
•Writer’s residency at Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony in 2005
•Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
•Chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, available from Dancing Girl Press
•The Terrible Baby has been translated into Romanian, poems to be published in Romanian literary journals.


Ray Zimmerman is a former president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild.

•Second Place in the 2007 poetry contest of the Tennessee Writers Alliance
•Chapbook, Searching for Cranes favorably reviewed in Bloomsbury Review


Helga Kidder received a BA in English from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College .

•Co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and leads their poetry group
•Poetry and translations have been published in many journals and anthologies
•Chapbook Why I Reach for the Stars, was a finalist in the Firewheel Chapbook competition


E. Smith Gilbert is a pseudonym.

•Published in the United States and Great Britain
•Currently involved in documentary film

Signs

Signs

Clouds promise rain.
Cuckoo sings his promise too.
All signs fail in dry weather. - Ray Zimmerman

Red Star

Red Star

I awaken
beneath Antares glare.
You are still gone. - Ray Zimmerman

The Armchair Birder

As previously appeared in "The New Writer"


The Armchair Birder:
Discovering the Secret Lives of Birds
John Yow
ISBN 978-0-8078-3279-0
Very occasionally, I read a book, or a passage from a book and say, “I wish I had written that.” The Armchair Birder by John Yow is such a book.
Mr. Yow is a skilled observer. He filled his book with first hand accounts of his observations of 40 common birds observed at his home in rural Georgia or on short trips away from home. Woven into this framework of observation are narratives from famous North American bird observers such as John James Audubon and Arthur Cleveland Bent. These accounts echo his own observations, complimented by reproductions of Audubon’s classic illustrations.
There is one thing his book is not. It is not a guide to bird identification. Yow picked 40 birds easily identified and took the study much further by examining the lives, behavior, and folklore of each species. The Armchair Birder is a delightful read which will motivate readers to further their own investigations.
Reviewed by Ray Zimmerman
http://znaturalist.blogspot.com

Meacham

Meacham Workshop
The semi annual Meacham Writers’ Workshop is hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Chattanooga State Technical and Community College. Notable writers from across the nation participate by giving readings of their published work and by leading workshops for emerging writers. Area writers can submit manuscripts for review and evaluation. For details, see
http://www.meachamwriters.org/

library book sale

As published in "The New Writer"

Library Book Sale
The Summer Book Sale to support the Chattanooga – Hamilton County Public Libraries will take place at Eastgate Town Center, August 7 -14. Readers can pick up some bargain used books, and support the libraries at the same time. Sale hours are Monday – Saturday, 9 am, to 7 pm and Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM.

Poet Laureate

This piece previously published in The New Writer

W. S. Merwin Named Poet Laureate

On July 1, James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, announced W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin will be appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. Merwin has published more than 30 volumes of poetry, essays, and translations. He has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is also an avid conservationist, having worked to preserve the winter habitat of Monarch Butterflies in Mexico and numerous endangered plants found near his home in Hawaii.
The Librarian of Congress appoints the Poet Laureate after consulting poets, critics and other persons in the literary world. The Laureate has an office at the Library of Congress and serves a one year term, though several have been appointed to additional terms. The current Laureate, Kay Ryan, is now serving her second term.
The office of Poet Laureate was first established as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1937. In 1986, the title was changed to Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry. Robert Penn Warren was the first to serve with the new title.