Poetry at the Library

Poetry Reading

Friday, April 29, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Library Reference/Reading Area

Award winning poets Connie Wanek and Louis Jenkins will present a lively and amusing poetry reading for all listeners.

Wanek’s third book, “On Speaking Terms”, has just been released from Copper Canyon Press, and is a Lannan Literary selection for 2010.  Her work has been published in “The Atlantic Monthly” and “Poetry” magazine, among other periodicals.  Wanek’s poems have been called “incomparably lovely” by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, who named her a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress in 2006.  She was raised in Las Cruces, NM, and now makes her home in Duluth, MN.

Louis Jenkins’ poems have been published in “The Best American Poetry 1999” and “Great American Prose Poems”.  His most recent book is “Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005”.  Jenkins has read his poetry on A Prairie Home Companion and was a featured poet at the Geraldine R. dodge Poetry Festival in 1996 and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Aldeburgh, England in 2007.