Zoom conversation and reading with Lise Goett and Mark Wunderlich followed by open mic
6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern
Free
First hour reading/conversation with featured poets
Hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche
Featured event will be recorded
Second hour open mic (one poem limit please)
Lise Goett (Taos) and Mark Wunderlich (New York) join us live in conversation to talk about and read from their new books and all things poetry. Lisa features her new book, The Radiant.
Lise Goett’s work has garnered numerous prizes, including the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America, The Paris Review Discovery Award, the Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry, and the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first collection, Waiting for the Paraclete (Beacon Press, 2002) and more recently, The Palette Journal Spotlight Prize and a grant from New Mexico Writers for The Radiant. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Image, Mandorla, Lana Turner Journal and the Antioch Review. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from N.Y.U., and an M.F.A. from the Writing Division of Columbia University.
Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the NEA, the Amy Lowell Trust, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere, and his work has been widely anthologized. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program in Vermont and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. Author photo credit Beowulf Sheehan.