Poets discuss Alaska Classics of poetry
July 19, 2010
Peggy Shumaker, teacher and author of poetry collections including “Blaze” and “Gnawed
Bones,” as well as a book of lyrical non-fiction called “Just Breathe Normally,” will
moderate a discussion led by poets Derick Burleson, Cynthia Hardy and Jeanne Clark,
during the poetry installment of the Alaska Classics series held at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
July 28.
Burleson is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks and author of “Never Night.” His first collection of poems, “Ejo: Poems,
Rwanda 1991-94,” won the 2000 Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry.
Hardy is an associate professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and
author of collections of poetry including “Beneath a Portrait of a Horse.”
Clark is creative writing faculty member at California State University, Chico and
the author of the poem collections “Ohio Blue Tips” and “”Gorrill’s Orchard.” All
Alaska Classics lectures will be held in the Schaible Auditorium on the University
of Alaska Fairbanks campus. For information call 474-7021.
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