The next reading in the Elliston Poetry Room will be by poets Shara Lessley, Collier Nogues, Nathaniel Perry, and Marcus Wicker for The Cincinnati Review Emerging Poets Festival.<\/p>\n
A panel will take place on November 8, 2013, 2:00 PM, in the Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library, immediately followed by a reading at 3:00 PM in the same location. Both the panel and the reading are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
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Collier Nogues<\/b>\u2019s first book, On the Other Side, Blue<\/i>, was published by Four Way Books in 2011. She has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Oregon\u2019s Fishtrap, Inc. Currently, she teaches writing at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in nearby Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Shara Lessley<\/b> is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale<\/i> (New Issues 2012) and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Colgate University\u2019s O\u2019Connor Fellowship, The Gilman School\u2019s Tickner Fellowship, and a \u201cDiscovery\u201d \/ The Nation<\/i> prize. She currently lives in the Middle East where she\u2019s completing her second collection, tentatively titled The Explosive Expert\u2019s Wife<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel Perry<\/b> is the author of Nine Acres<\/i> (APR\/Copper Canyon, 2011).\u00a0 Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Kenyon Review Online, Subtropics<\/i> and elsewhere.\u00a0 He is the editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review<\/i> and lives with his family in rural southside Virginia.<\/p>\n
Marcus Wicker<\/b>\u2019s first book Maybe the Saddest Thing<\/i> (Harper, 2012) won the National Poetry Series Prize. The recipient of a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he has also held fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Indiana University. He is an assistant professor at Southern Indiana University.<\/p>\n
Look for recordings of this presentation soon in the digital collection, The Elliston Project<\/a>: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n Learn more about Events<\/a> sponsored by the Elliston Poetry Fund.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next reading in the Elliston Poetry Room will be by poets Shara Lessley, Collier Nogues, Nathaniel Perry, and Marcus Wicker for The Cincinnati Review Emerging Poets Festival. A panel will take place on November 8, 2013, 2:00 PM, in … Continue reading