Rhichard Wilbur Award winning poets Chelsea Rathburn (2005) and Len Krisak (2000) highlight the April 18 Powow River Poets reading.
The reading starts at 7:30 PM, Newburyport Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport, MA,
www.newburyportart.org and is followed by an Open Mike.
Chelsea Rathburn’s first full-length collection of poetry,
The Shifting Line, received the 2005 Wilbur. She is also author of a limited-edition chapbook,
Unused Lines, published by Aralia Press in 2003. Her poems have appeared in
The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, The Cincinnati Review, and
River Styx, among other journals and anthologies.
Len Krisak, a long-time Powow River Poets member, has won the Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren awards as well as the Wilbur. His most recent book, a complete translation of the Odes of Horace was published in 2006 by Carcanet Books, U.K. Two chapbooks,
Midland and
Fugitive Child, came out in 1999 from Somers Rocks Press and Aralia Press, respectively. In 2000, his full-length collection
Even as We Speak won the Wilbur Award An additional collection,
If Anything, was issued by WordPress in 2004.
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