BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 RDATE:20130310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 RDATE:20131103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T180000 LOCATION:Albany Quadrangle\, Smith Hall GEO:45.451415;-122.668211 SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Brenda Hillman DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman Acclaimed Poet &\; Teacher Non-violent Ac tivist Academy of American Poets Fellow \; "Hillman's voice echoe s with otherness. Subject to continual breakdown—and breakthrough—her voice is grounded in resistance and wonder\, absurdity and joy. Her poli tical voice is pitch perfect and I want her to run for president…."—T om D'Evelyn "Graced with Robert Duncan's tutelary spirit\, each poem tha t Hillman writes creates its own experimental configuration….She writes as if the lyric poem has a political calling." —Marjorie Welish "Lingu istically\, spatially\, politically\, emotionally\, Brenda Hillman's bril liant poems are some of the most thrilling poems we have. Our I.Q.s and o ur Heart Q.s rise when we read her. Each line\, each poem\, each book\, e xtraordinarily fresh and original\, is minted alive before our eyes." — Sharon Olds Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press: White Dress (1985)\, Fortress (1989)\ , Death Tractates (1992)\, Bright Existence (1993)\, Loose Sugar (1997)\, Cascadia (2001)\, Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005)\, and Practical Water (2009)\, \;for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry\; an d three chapbooks: Coffee\, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press\, 1982)\; Autumn Sojou rn (Em Press\, 1995)\; and The Firecage (a+bend press\, 2000). In August 2013\, her ninth collection of poetry\, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fi re\, will be released. Hillman has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications\, and\, with Patricia Dienstfrey\, co- edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003) . She co-translated\, \;with Diallah Haidar\, Poems from Above the Hi ll: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi\, one of Libya's most significant poet s. \;In 2010 she co-translated Jeongrye Choi's book of poems\, Instan ces\, released by Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse2011p ressrelease). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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"Hillman's voice echoes with otherne
ss. Subject to continual breakdown—and breakthrough—her voice is grou
nded in resistance and wonder\, absurdity and joy. Her political voice is
pitch perfect and I want her to run for president…."—Tom D'Evelyn
"Graced with Robert Duncan's tutelary spirit\, each poem that
Hillman writes creates its own experimental configuration….She writes a
s if the lyric poem has a political calling." —Marjorie Welish<
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"Linguistically\, spatially\, politically\, emotiona
lly\, Brenda Hillman's brilliant poems are some of the most thrilling poe
ms we have. Our I.Q.s and our Heart Q.s rise when we read her. Each line\
, each poem\, each book\, extraordinarily fresh and original\, is minted
alive before our eyes." —Sharon Olds