September 12, 2012, Wednesday - Joseph Campana & Paul Otremba Publication Reading at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Joseph Campana & Paul Otremba Publication Reading 
  
Join us for an evening of award winning poetry by two amazing scholars.

Joseph Campana is a poet, critic, and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham UP, 2012), and two collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and Natural Selections (2012), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and many other venues. He has received the Isabel MacCaffrey Essay Prize, the MLA’s Crompton-Noll Award for LGB studies, and grants from the NEA and the HAA. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Rice University.  http://josephcampana.rice.edu/

Paul Otremba is the author of the poetry collection The Currency (Four Way Books 2009). Born and raised in Minnesota, Paul studied English and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota before receiving his MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Paul is published widely in print and online, including The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Literary Imagination, Forklift, Witness, and was anthologized in American Poet’s of the 21st Century: The New Poetics.  In honor of his poetry, he has received scholarships and a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, a Krakow Poetry Seminar Fellowship, and a prize from the Academy of American Poets. Paul serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Southern Methodist University.  http://paulotremba.com/

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.