Past Events
Coffee House Press Poets Reading w/Joseph Lease, Chair of Graduate Writing Program
Also featuring Marjorie Welish and Martha Ronk
Friday, April 11, 7:30 pm
Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley
510.849.2087
Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Broken World (Coffee House Press) and Human Rights (Zoland Books). His poem "Broken World (For James Assatly)" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner). His poems also have been featured on NPR and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, and elsewhere.
Lease's recent readings and residencies include those at the University of Minnesota, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, City Lights Books, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, the University of Denver, Louisiana State University, West Virginia University, Stanford University, and elsewhere.
Lease is associate professor of Writing and Literature and chair of CCA's MFA Program in Writing.
Martha Ronk is the author of six books, including In a landscape of having to repeat, winner of the 2005 PEN USA Poetry Award. A 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, her poetry has been widely published in journals and magazines.
A Renaissance literature and Shakespearean scholar, Ronk has also taught in the graduate writing program at Colorado University, Otis College of Art & Design, and in the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. She received her PhD from Yale and has lived in California since 1971.
Marjorie Welish is the author of five previous collections of poetry. Poems from Isle of the Signatories have appeared in Conjunctions and No: A Journal of the Arts (Issue #4), which was centered around her art and poetry. A recent conference on her writing and art at the University of Pennsylvania resulted in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation).
The recipient of the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, the Howard Foundation Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and other prestigious poetry awards, Marjorie Welish lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.