November 9, 2010, Tuesday - Poets Thomas Smith and Timothy Young at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Red Dragonfly Press and the Loft Literary Center present poets Thomas Smith and Timothy Young reading from their work.

Thomas Smith is the author of five full-length poetry collections, Keeping the Star, Horse of Earth, The Dark Indigo Current, Waking Before Dawn, and The Foot of the Rainbow. He is also editor of a US selection of the Canadian poet, Alden Nowlan, What Happened WhenHe Went to the Store for Bread. He has given talks at the “Robert Bly in This World” symposium at the University of Minnesota and at the Temenos Academy in London. His work has been included in Scribner’s Best American Poetry series as well as on Garrison “The Writer’s Almanac” radio program and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” newspaper column. He lives beside the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, WI, with his wife, artist Krista Spieler.

Timothy Young is a poet, essayist, and retired educator in juvenile corrections. Herds of Bears Surround Us, published in 2010 by Red Dragonfly Press is his latest book of poetry.  Building in Deeper Water, his first book of poetry, was introduced by Robert Bly and published by the Thousands Press.  His work has appeared in Scribner's The Best American Poetry of 1999, and in the 2005 edition of Houghton-Mifflin’s textbook, Reading and Writing from Literature. Magazines such as Parabola, Inroads and Journal for Living have all published his essays. Garrison Keillor has read his poems on the Writer's Almanac.  As a performing poet, Timothy Young has recorded his poetry with various musicians over the past thirty years.  In 2010 he has released, Perfect Harmony, a CD of poetry, his own and translations of Andalusian mystical poems, with musical compositions by his wife, violinist, Dalyce Elliott Young.  In 2008, his poetry and vocal work were part of Pulse, the jazz big band recording by Dan Cavanagh, professor of jazz studies at the University of Texas in Arlington.