Joseph Parisi
will be reading at the Women's Federated Clubhouse, 104 W. Ridge St. in Marquette, Sept. 15th at 7:30 p.m.

Longtime Poetry magazine editor Joseph Parisi will be giving a lecture and Q&A at the Women’s Federated Clubhouse, 104 W. Ridge St. in Marquette, Monday, September 15 at 7:30 p.m. The title of the lecture is “Making it New: An Intimate View of Modernism in Letters from the Archives of POETRY Magazine.”

Parisi was invited to join Poetry as Associate Editor in 1976 and was Editor-in-Chief of the magazine from 1983 to 2003, the longest tenure after that of founder Harriet Monroe. He also served as Executive Director of the journal’s parent organization, the Modern Poetry Association (now The Poetry Foundation).

His many books include a two-volume history of the magazine: Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962 (2002) and Between the Lines (2006), which completes the chronicle down to the year 2002, the 90th Anniversary of the magazine. Both were compiled with his former associate editor Stephen Young, with whom he also put together The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (also published in 2002).

His most recent book is 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, an anthology with commentary tracing the tradition from Emily Dickinson to today’s most notable women writers. Published this April by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, it went into a second printing in June. Parisi’s widely-praised earlier collection, 100 Essential Modern Poems, was issued in 2005 and is now in its fourth printing.

He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago, and is frequent lecturer around the country and abroad on modernist literature and American poetry. Among his awards, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and was elected a By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2002. He is currently working on a new book about Venice, past and present.

This reading, sponsored by the NMU Department of English and Passages North, is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Rebecca Johns, Director of the NMU Visiting Writers’ Program, at 227-1795.

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Cristina Henriquez
will be reading at the Women's Federated Clubhouse, 104 W. Ridge St. in Marquette, Sept. 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

Cristina is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart, a collection of eight stories and a novella.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and she was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries."  Her first novel, The World in Half, will be published next year by Riverhead Books.  She lives in Chicago.

 This reading, sponsored by the NMU Department of English and Passages North, is free and open to the public.

 "How does a young writer gather the wisdom, heart, and tenderness to write stories of such exquisite humanity?  I can only guess she is an ancient soul, a zen master, a bruja, or all of the above.  However it's done, I bow deeply and welcome this first collection."--Sandra Cisneros

For more information, contact Rebecca Johns, Director of the NMU Visiting Writers' Program, at 227-1795.

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