1st night reading and reception
September 11, 2008
Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University
6 p.m. - Reception for conference participants
7 p.m. - Poetry Readings by Dawn Lundy Martin, Jan Beatty and Kathleen Fraser (open to the public)
KATHLEEN FRASER has authored 16 books since 1967, most recently, Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling, and a chapbook of “collaged” wall pieces, hi dde violeth I dde violet. Her essay collection, Translating the Unspeakable, Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, appeared in 2000. While teaching at San Francisco State University she founded The American Poetry Archives. Fraser was founding editor of HOW(ever), a ground-breaking journal of women’s innovative writing, which was published from 1983-1991, and of HOW2, the electronic version, begun in 1997.
JAN BEATTY teaches creative writing at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, where she also directs Madwomen in the Attic, a community creative writing program for women. She is a long-time host and producer of Prosody, a weekly literary arts program featured on Pittsburgh’s WYEP-FM (91.3) and available through podcast via the National Public Radio Web site. Beatty’s first book, Mad River, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her most recent works include Boneshaker and Red Sugar.
DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is cofounder of the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminists, and coeditor with Vivien Labaton of The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. Currently an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Lundy Martin is the author of A Gathering of Matter /A Matter of Gathering, which was selected by Carl Phillips for the Cave Canem Award.
