Not only will the Leesburg Poetry Series relaunch this month after a long pause, but Frederick Turner--who gave a great reading here in 1993, and whose work I'm sure you know--will be starting it off.
I hope that many of you here in the Washington DC area, Baltimore, etc., will be able to attend...and bring a poem to read! Leesburg is about 18 miles from Dulles airport, about 40 miles northwest of Washington DC, and not too much farther from Baltimore. Call or PM if you need directions or other information....Here's the official announcement:
The Leesburg Poetry Series
welcomes
FREDERICK TURNER
Sunday, July 22, 2007, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Fire Works Pizza, 201 Harrison Street SE, Leesburg, Va.
An open reading follows. Admission is free. For more information, contact Claudia Gary at 703-309-8755.
About Our Featured Guest
Frederick Turner is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and philosopher who has authored 27 books, including The Culture of Hope, Genesis, Hadean Eclogues, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics. Paradise, The Prayers of Dallas, and Natural Religion. His essay (with the distinguished German neuropsychologist Ernst Pöppel) on the neurobiology and cultural universality of poetic meter has been widely cited and reprinted, as have his essays for Harper's on modernism, education and environmentalism. Educated at Oxford University, he is Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas.
About the Leesburg Poetry Series
In welcoming back Frederick Turner on July 22, 2007, the Leesburg Poetry Series returns after a hiatus of about 12 years. From 1992 to 1994, the LPS featured such distinguished poets as Dana Gioia, Henry Taylor, Frederick Turner, Frederick Feirstein, George Garrett, Joseph Awad, Robert McDowell, Miles David Moore, Grace Cavalieri, Jean Nordhaus, Anne Lane Sheldon, Patsy Anne Bickerstaff, Eunice De Chazeau, and others, as well as emerging writers from near and far. Some of the events had introductions and interludes of chamber music, and most included open readings.
LPS founder and organizer Claudia Gary (
www.claudiagary.com) is a poet, editor, and composer whose first full-length poetry collection, Humor Me, was published in 2006 by David Robert Books. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals, and her chamber music and art songs have been performed in Leesburg, Washington DC, New York, and other cities. She is currently northern regional vice president of the Poetry Society of Virginia.
Future Leesburg Poetry Series readings will again feature local and visiting poets, as well as chamber music interludes when possible. Each event will include an open reading, in which all poets are invited to participate.
Many thanks to Fire Works Pizza (
www.fireworkspizza.com) for helping to relaunch this well-loved series.
[This message has been edited by Claudia Gary Annis (edited July 08, 2007).]
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