If you’re on the loose this Thursday, make sure to drop by the Delaware County Institute of Science in Media for a wonderful poetry reading featuring Harriet Levin Millan and Jeffrey Ethan Lee.
Poet Harriet Levin Millan
Prize winning poet Harriet Levin Millan is the author of two books of poetry. Â Her debut collection, The Christmas Show (Beacon Press) was chosen by Eavan Boland for a Barnard New Women Poet’s Prize. That book also won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Â The Philadelphia Inquirer named it a Notable Book of the Year. Her second book, Girl in Cap and Gown (Mammoth Books) was a 2009 National Poetry Series Finalist. A PEW Fellowship in the Arts Winner in Poetry and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she co-directs the Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University. Â Her story, “Yalla!,” which is part of a novel she is writing about the Reunion Project that seeks to reunite Lost Boys of Sudan with their mothers, will appear in the Kenyon Review in January 2011.
Poet Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Jeffrey Ethan Lee has been Senior Poetry Editor of Many Mountains Moving, Inc., a 501(c)(3) since 2007. Lee’s poetry book, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006) was a 2007 Colorado Book Award finalist. His first full-length poetry book, invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004) was praised in American Book Review, North American Review, and Rain Taxi Review, among others. Lee won the 2002 Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Poetry Press, 2001). He also published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in North American Review, African American Review, American Poetry Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crosscurrents, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square, & Other Voices. He also won the first Tupelo Press award for literary fiction in 2001 for a novel, The Autobiography of Somebody Else. He has a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and an MFA from NYU. Text and audio samples can be found here, here, here and here.
This month’s reading, hosted by Brian Sammond, will also be your LAST CHANCE to read and/or vote in the Science Institute’s open mic contest. The Institute has kept its ballot box sealed all year long, and after this last reading, we’ll crack it open to find out who will win the coveted featured reading spot in October. Oooooh the anticipation!
As always, the reading starts at 7pm at the Delaware County Institute of Science, 11 Veterans Square, Media, PA 19063.
