coeNEWS: COE prof hosts Summer Poetry Reading Series July 9-13

A week of poetry reading and discussion of the poetic craft featuring four top Georgia poets will be hosted by University of Georgia College of Education professor Misha Cahnmann-Taylor July 9-13 at The Globe in downtown Athens.

The series titled, ?Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Reading Series,? will feature poets Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchinson, Ayodele Heath and Alice Friman each night beginning at 7 p.m. The finale on Friday, July 13 titled, ?Poetry by and for Educators: Readings from the Collective,? will feature UGA educators and students.

Cahnmann-Taylor, an associate professor in the department of language and literacy education and founder of Poetry by and for Educators, developed the summer poetry reading series in conjunction with her Advanced Poetry for Educators graduate class.

Here is a brief description of each featured poet:

Stewart

Ida Stewart, Monday, July 9, 2012
Ida Stewart?s first book, Gloss, won the 2011 Perugia Press Prize. A native of West Virginia, she holds an MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University and is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at UGA. She?s a co-editor of Unsplendid and has also served as an editorial assistant at The Georgia Review.

Murchison

Ginger Murchison, Tuesday, July 10
Ginger Murchison, together with Thomas Lux, founded Georgia Tech?s POETRY at TECH, where she served as associate director for five years and has been one of its McEver Visiting Chairs in Poetry since 2009. A three-time Pushcart nominee, she is a graduate of Warren Wilson?s MFA Program for Writers and editor of the acclaimed Cortland Review. Her first collection of poems, Out Here, was published by Jeanne Duval Editions in 2008.

Heath

Ayodele Heath, Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Born in Atlanta, poet M. Ayodele Heath is a graduate of the MFA program at New England College. His debut poetry collection, Otherness, is available on Brick Road Poetry Press. Heath?s honors include a 2009 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize and a McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech. He has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem, Summer Poetry at Idyllwild, the Caversham Centre for Writers & Artists in South Africa and received a grant in Literary Arts from the Atlanta Bureau for Cultural Affairs.

Friman

Alice Friman, Thursday, July 12
Alice Friman?s fifth book of poetry is Vinculum, LSU. Previous books are The Book of the Rotten Daughter and Inverted Fire, BkMk, and Zoo, Arkansas. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Bernheim Foundation. Among her prizes are a 2012 Pushcart Prize, the 2001 James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, plus three prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Anthologized widely and published in 13 countries, she was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis from 1973-93 and is now Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University.

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