Axton Festival of Film & Verse
Putting the Auteur Back in Author: A Poetry Reading by Wayne Miller and Laurence Goldstein
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Apr 09, 2009 from 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm |
| Where | Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library |
| Contact Name | Paul Griner |
| Contact Phone | 852-5303 |
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Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections. The Book of Props (Milkweed, 2009) and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He is also coeditor of the anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and translator of Moikom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts. The recipient of five Poetry Society of America awards, the Bess Hokin Prize and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he teaches the University of Central Missouri and edits Pleiades. His long poem "What Night Says to the Empty Boat: Notes for a Film in Verse" is included in his most recent volume.
Laurence Goldstein is the author of three books of literary criticism, most recently The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, four books of poetry, most recently A Room in California, and the editor or coeditor of eight other books, most recently Writing Ann Arbor. He is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.

