Marie Gauthier

Our first event of 2009, and it promises to be an exciting night — c-section or no, you can bet I’m not missing this!

On Thursday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the Collected Poets Series presents Art & Poetry in Motion: Jeffrey Levine, prizewinning poet and editor, whose latest collection is Rumor of Cortez, and Patrick Donnelly, author of The Charge, will read from their work, along with an art opening by painter Liz Hawkes deNiord.

Jeffrey Levine‘s first book of poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, won the Transcontinental Poetry Award from Pavement Saw Press in 2001, and his second book, Rumor of Cortez, (Red Hen Press, 2005) was nominated for a 2005 LA Times Book Award in Poetry. Twelve times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he has won the Larry Levis Poetry Award from Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Award from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Kestrel Poetry Prize, and most recently, the 2007 American Literary Review and the Ekphrasis Awards. Levine is the Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press, an award winning, not-for-profit independent literary press with offices in the Berkshires.

Patrick Donnelly‘s collection of poems is The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003), about which Gregory Orr wrote “. . . everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage.” He is an Associate Editor at Four Way Books, and has taught writing at Colby College, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Slate Magazine, and many other reviews. With Stephen D. Miller he has translated classical Japanese poetry and drama, and their translations have appeared in numerous literary journals. He lives in South Deerfield, MA.

Liz Hawkes deNiord is a painter from Westminster West, VT. She teaches art at the local high school in Brattleboro. Her color infused, textured, abstract works roam inner and outer landscapes through paintings, sculpture, prints, and design. Liz is the founder of LHD Design. She shows her work both locally and regionally.

To read selections from the poets’ work, please visit the Collected Poets Series website.