June 11 2009 - Poetry Center to Host Summer Events

A series of upcoming events at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center will kick off the summer season.

All events will be held at the center, which is located in the Helen S. Schaefer Building, 1508 E. Helen St.

On June 11, A Closer Look Book Club will host a discussion that will focus on Herman Melville's "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade." with Tony Luebbermann, a volunteer coordinator with the center. The event will be held at 5:30 p.m. The fictional piece was written by Melville prior to his shift to poetic works.

Then, on June 18, the center will host a reading with Fieries and Snuffies Summer Resident James Allen Hall, a poet and assistant professor at the State University of New York. The event will be held at 8 p.m.

Hall's first book, "Now You're the Enemy," was the winning book during the 2008 University of Arkansas Poetry Series and was recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters as the Best Book of Poems of 2008. Hall's poems have appeared in numerous publications across the United States.

A Closer Look Book Club will host another discussion about Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" with Cybele Knowles, an events coordinator for the UA Poetry Center, on July 9 at 5:30 p.m.

Source: http://uanews.org/node/25879