POG Reading

POETRY IN ACTION
Presents

poets

Sheila Murphy
and
Barbara Henning

Saturday, November 18, 8pm
***(please note the later than usual start time!)***

Dinnerware Gallery
101 W. Sixth Street
(corner 6th St. & 9th Ave., enter on 9th Ave.)

Admission: $5; Students $3

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent collections of poetry are Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw Press, 2005) and Proof of Silhouettes (Stride Press, 2004). Her book Letters to Unfinished J. was a winner of the 2001 Gertrude Stein Award. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she co-founded and coordinated the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series.

Barbara Henning is the author of two novels, six books of poetry and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her most recent book is a novel, You, Me and the Insects (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). She has a book forthcoming from United Artists Books. In the 90's, Barbara was the editor of Long News in the Short Century. She recently moved to Tucson from New York.

Poetry in Action 2006-07:

Coming Up:

February 24: poet Alice Notley and filmmaker Pablo Toledo

March 17: writer Cristina Rivera Garza and poet Brent Cunningham

March 31: poet Harryette Mullen (this event will begin at 5pm); Harryette Mullen will also present a paper Saturday morning as part of the Arizona Quarterly Annual Symposium)

April 7: poets Cynthia Hogue and Hoa Nguyen

All events take place Saturday evenings, 7pm, at Dinnerware Gallery, 101 W 6th Street, in Tucson's Downtown Arts District, unless otherwise noted.