Church with Dana Levin

In case you missed Dana Levin at the last Works in Progress, or like me you can’t get enough of her…   come to Church of Beethoven this SUNDAY or WEDNESDAY:

Sunday, Oct. 11, 10:30am
Weds., Oct. 14, 6pm

1715 5th St NW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

AT:  1715 5th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

MUSIC:  Mozart Concerto No.3 for Violin and Orchestra by Mozart. Violin soloist Roberta Arruda; Barber Adagio for Strings.

Poet Dana Levin will read.

If you haven’t met Dana yet, check out this interview from THE ALIBI:

Poet and new UNM prof Dana Levin talks teaching
By Erin Adair-Hodges

For 11 years, poet Dana Levin taught creative writing at the College of Santa Fe. Though CSF has managed to come back to life in an altered form after its near-total collapse, Levin has moved on. She is now the new Russo Chair of creative writing at UNM. Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the 1999 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, among many others. She is also the author of Wedding Day. Her third book, Sky Burial, is slated for a 2011 release from Copper Canyon Press.

Q:  What do you see as the connection between being a poet and being a teacher? Most poets teach; is that natural? How has that evolved?
read the answer online at THE ALIBI–>

Instructor Amy Beeder: Poetry in Review(s)

Amy Beeder’s poems are forthcoming this fall in Poetry, The Southern Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West and The Laurel Review.

Her poem, “Captain Haddock vs. the PTA,” which appeared in Poetry’s July/August issue, was also featured on a Poetry magazine podcast.

In September she will read poems as part of Ellen Rothenberg’s exhibition Reading Landscapes at the Albuquerque Museum–an installation that combines text & visual production.

Here’s a sneak peek at Amy reading for last years Poetry Month Presentation at UNM’s Bookstore

Louise Gluck and Dana Levin: a conversation

Dana Levin recently interviewed poet Louise Gluck, from www.poets.org–  This article originally appeared in issue 36 of American Poet, the biannual journal of the Academy of American Poets:

Dana Levin: I wanted to start by asking about your new book, A Village Life, which is coming out this Fall. Time feels spatial in the book, as if all the book’s varied voices are speaking, events are happening, in a simultaneous temporal moment.

Louise Glück: There’s something very strange in these poems that I’ve been unable to put my finger on. It’s certainly not a willed or deliberate quality, but it has to do with that simultaneity. And it strikes me that the book has something in common with “Landscape,” a poem in Averno, in which the stages of a life are represented by individual sections, but the narrative elements and even the point of view shift from section to section—and yet what’s represented is the whole of a life. It occurred to me that A Village Life engages that horrible axiom that, at the end of your life, as you’re dying, the whole of your life floods back. That’s what the book feels like to me: the whole of a life, but not progressive, not narrative: simultaneous. And there’s no drama attendant in the idea of dying. It’s beyond the drama of the forfeit of the world; it’s just a long exhalation.

DL: What did the book teach you aesthetically?

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