Palm Springs Desert
MUSEUM

P O E T R Y

Featured Poets and Open Mic Series 2005

Thursday, April 21
A Special Evening w/ Maurya Simon

Author of "Ghost Orchid"

6  - 8 PM

Free Admission + open mic

 
A true master of metaphor, Simon here performs poetry's ultimate task: the alchemy of body and soul.
-- B.H. Fairchild
 

Maurya Simon is the author of The Enchanted Room and Days of Awe (Copper Canyon Press, 1986, 1989), Speaking in Tongues (Gibbs Smith, 1990), Golden Labyrinth (University of Missouri Press, 1995) A Brief History of Punctuation (Sutton Hoo Press, 2002) and Weavers, a collaborative work with Los Angeles artist, Baila Goldenthal, (Blackbird Press, 2003). 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, the Celia B. Wagner and Lucille Medwick Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright-Indo-American Fellowship. Simon has been a fellow at Hawthornden Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden, as well as a lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and in more than twenty-five anthologies. She teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside and lives in the Angeles National Forest of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California.

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