Poetry Reading, Valley Contermporary Poets Reading Series

September 20, 2009 at 3:00pm

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Valley Contemporary Poets Reading Series Presents:

Tony Barnstone
Kathleen Tyler

September 20, 2009
3:00 PM

Tarzana Community and Cultural Center
19130 Ventura Blvd, Tarzana CA 91356

Suggested donation $6.00

Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and
Literature at Whittier College. His books of poems include The Golem of Los
Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008, winner, Benjamin Saltman Award); Sad Jazz:
Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone
(University Press of Florida, 1998), in addition to the chapbook Naked Magic
(Main Street Rag). He is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry
and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks. Among his awards
are a fellowship from the NEA, a fellowship from the California Arts
Council, a Pushcart Prize in Poetry, and 1st place in in the 2008
Strokestown International Poetry Prize. His new book of poems, Tongue of
War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry, and
will be published by BKMK Press in 2009.


Kathleen Tyler lives in Los Angeles where she teaches English at a local
high school. Her publications include The Secret Box from Mayapple Press,
and My Florida from Backwaters Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals including Visions International, Runes, Solo, Poetry Motel, Margie,
Seems, Cider Press Review, and others. She has been the featured reader at
many Southern California venues such as Beyond Baroque, Skylight Books,
Cobalt Café, World Stage, Venice Grind, and the Church in Ocean Park. A poem
from My Florida was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently, a poem of
hers was a finalist in the 2009 dA Center for the Arts Prize.

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Imani Tolliver
Douglas Kearney

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B.H. Fairchild
Suzanne Lummis