Djanikian and Jennings at the DECLO Institute Of Science on May 15th
POETS GREG DJANIKIAN
AND MICHAEL JENNINGS
TO READ AT THE DELAWARE COUNTY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
On Thursday, May 15, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., the Mad Poets Society will present a poetry reading featuring Greg Djanikian and Michael Jennings and at the Delaware County Institute of Science, 11 Veterans Square, Media, PA 19063, hosted by Eileen D’Angelo.
Gregory Djanikian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1949 of Armenian parentage and came to the United States when he was eight years old. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Carnegie Mellon, the latest of which is So I Will Till the Ground. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Poetry, and in many anthologies including Unsettling America (Penguin), Best American Poetry of 2000 (Scribners), 180 More (Random House) and Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking). He directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Michael Jennings was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans and grew up in east Texas and the deserts of southwestern Iran before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the Creative Writing Program of Syracuse University. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and three books on the Siberian Husky, a breed he raises and judges. His New and Selected Poems, tentatively titled Bone-Songs and Sanctuaries, is due to be released by Sheep Meadow Press in the spring of 2009.
An open reading will follow. Bring your poems! For further information about this event or the Mad Poets Society, contact Eileen D’Angelo at 610-586-9318, email: madpoets@comcast.net or check the website: www.madpoetssociety.com.
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