Afaa Michael Weaver and January O'Neil: Grolier Poetry Book Shop

For these who don't know, the Grolier is the oldest poetry book store in North America. Hope you can make it to the reading!

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The Grolier Poetry Book Shop presents
Afaa Weaver and January Gill O'Neil
Friday, December 2
7 p.m.
at The Grolier Poetry Book Shop
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA

A native of Baltimore, Afaa Michael Weaver (born Michael S. Weaver) has been a Pew fellow, a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan, and an NEA fellow in poetry. His first book of poetry Water Son, was published in 1985 by University Press of Virginia. He has had plays produced professionally and worked as an editor and freelance journalist. His short fiction is included in the anthology Children of the Night. His prizes include a Pushcart, the PDI Award in playwriting from ETA Theatre in Chicago, and the May Sarton Award. His 11th collection of poems is Kama i'reeh (Like the Wind)(2010), a translation of his work into Arabic by Wissal Al-Allaq. Weaver works as an editor and a translator, principally in Chinese. He maintains a translation website called Poets Cafe. A major interview with Weaver was published in the Summer 2011 issue of Contemporary Literature. In early 2013 Weaver's 12th collection of poetry, The Government of Nature, will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press. His Academy of American Poets website is http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/170. Weaver lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Comments

Anonymous said…
This is in my (work) neighborhood. Is should be able to make it out!
January said…
Yahoo! Thanks Pho!
Susan Rich said…
You will be around the corner from my old apartment on Bow Street. Have fun! Michael has a piece in the anthology of essays I'm co-editing. Wish I could come out!

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