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Open Books: Event Archive
November 09, 2006 07:30 PM
RICHARD KENNEY & DAVID BIESPIEL
This evening's event is a reading and talk celebrating Long Journey:
Contemporary Northwest Poets ($22.95 Oregon State) edited by Mr. Biespiel.
Mr. Kenney, one of many local contributors to the anthology, will read those
poems and, we expect, more. Mr. Biespiel will discuss his editing process.
In the anthology's introduction he writes that "there is no such thing as
regional poetry;" that the poet doesn't see "with a regional sensibility but
with a poetic one." The book contains poems from seventy-one poets living in
the Northwest United States and Canada. Mr. Biespiel took the unusual
approach of requesting submissions of new work from regional poets with at
least "one book of poems on a national press." The poems, in most cases, are
either previously unpublished or published only in magazines. This allows
readers the pleasure of finding new writing from such favorites as Olena
Kalytiak Davis, Laura Jensen, and Mr. Biespiel's esteemed cohort this
evening, Richard Kenney, a University of Washington professor, MacArthur
Fellow, and author of three volumes of poetry.
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