POETS AT PACE:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Schimmel Theater Lobby, One Pace Plaza,
New York City Campus
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Since discovering poetry in his early 20s, he has published more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, written three screen-plays, directed a film, and received numerous awards. These include a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers' Award, a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and a Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award. Known for his wonderful reading performances, he is the only writer to have held the title of World Heavyweight Poetry Champion in Taos, NM four years in a row. Both his poetry and fiction have appeared in Notable Books of the Year lists in major newspapers.
Robert Hershon is a leading small-press publisher as well as an award-winning poet. He has published 12 books and his work has been included in more than 40 anthologies. An excellent reader of his work, he has performed in colleges, libraries, coffee houses and other venues throughout the country. Among his awards are two National Foundation for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and three awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, he curates the Poets Coffeehouse reading series at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. In addition to his writing, he is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press, one of the oldest independent publishers in the country, and he directs The Print Center, Inc., a non-profit facility which serves literary publishers, arts and community organizations, and schools and colleges, in which capacity he has printed Pace's literary magazine, Aphros, for more than 20 years.
Admission is free to the Pace community and also to the public. It will be followed by a Q & A, a chance to meet the writers, a book-signing, and refreshments.
