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Poets Sebastian Matthews and Maurya Simon read selections of their work.
Matthews teaches at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. He recently completed a memoir, “In My Father's Footsteps” (2004), and co-edited “Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews” (2004) with Stanley Plumly. His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, Post Road and Seneca Review.
Simon is the author of “The Enchanted Room and Days of Awe” (1986), “Speaking in Tongues” (1990) and “The Golden Labyrinth” (1995). Her most recent work, “Weavers”, is a collaboration with the Los Angeles artist Baila Goldenthal. Simon is the recipient of a 2002 Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, a 1999-2000 NEA fellowship in poetry, a University Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Celia B. Wagner and Lucille Medwick Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and in more than 25 anthologies. Simon chairs the creative writing department at the University of California, Riverside.
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