Poetry Reading With Carol Frost
Inkberry will present an evening of poetry with Carol Frost, Abbot Cutler and Peter Filkins, Saturday, April 5th at 7:00 pm, in Murdock Hall, at MCLA, North Adams. The reading will be followed by a signing and reception.Carol Frost is the award-winning author of nine collections of poems, including Pure (1994), Venus & Don Juan (1996), Love & Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000). Frost's most recent books, I Will Say Beauty (February, 2003) and The Queen's Desertion (May, 2006) both were published by Northwestern University Press. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes (with nominations every year for the last sixteen years), and magazine prizes from Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner.
She was a poetry editor for the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her poems and essays appear in such places as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly. She has taught for the MFA programs at Washington University, Wichita State University, and Warren Wilson. Frost serves as Writer-in-Residence at Hartwick College. She also directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop. Also reading will be local poets Abbot Cutler and Peter Filkins. Abbot Cutler has published two books of poetry: 1843 Rebecca 1847 (Rowan Tree Press) and The Dog Isn't Going Anywhere (Mad River Press). His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies What Have You Lost edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Under One Roof and Holding True, both edited by Barry Sternlieb of Mad River Press.
He teaches at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and lives in Ashfield, MA. Peter Filkins has published two volumes of poetry, What She Knew (1998) and After Homer (2002) and has translated Ingeborg Bachmann's The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, as well as the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA. Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate writing and reading.
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