On Friday, March 30, Jabberwocky at the Tannery will present a book signing event for “The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Local residant and prominent historian, Jason Sokol will speak about his latest book on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. As surprising as it may seem to many of us today, at the time of his death 50 years ago, Martin Luther King was widely despised by a great many white Americans, seen as almost irrevelant by an increasingly militarized young African-American youth, and as the hope for a free and equal society by others.
On Saturday, March 31, poetry lovers will be in for a treat with two distinguished guests, Robert Mazey and Jodie Hollander.
Poet, critic, translator and professor, Robert Mazey was educated at Kenyon, Iowa, and Stanford, and has taught at Western Reserve, Fresno State, the University of Utah, Franklin & Marshall, and elsewhere.
Awards include the Robert Frost Prize; the Lamont (for The Lovemaker); an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Bassine Citation and a PEN prize (for Evening Wind); the Poets’ Prize (for Collected Poems); fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts; and an honorary doctorate from the World Congress of Poets
He has given readings all over the world, including at at such schools as Yale, Oberlin, UCLA, Bucknell, Dartmouth, Vassar, Duke, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, and many others, as well as universities in England and Spain; at poetry centers and conventions; at museums and libraries; at Squaw Valley and other conferences; and at festivals celebrating the poetry of Hardy, Robinson, Weldon Kees, and James Wright. And now he comes to Jabberwocky!! AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED.
“Mezey has labored to master the craft of the English language long and deep. Now the fury and anguish of his person have fused with his always wild imagination to produce that almost impossible thing: a poetry that is fierce just because it is so full of love and kindness … Mezey’s Small Song contains only twenty poems. Only? In our era of poetic inflation, twenty poems, real poems, are precious. Taken with the poems in Mezey’s Couplets, they form a substantial value. They are among the most moving achievements of the past decade.”—James Wright
Jodie Hollander, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in Italy, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and attended the MacDowell Colony in February of 2015. Her debut publication, The Humane Society, was released with Tall-Lighthouse (London) in 2012, and her full-length collection, My Dark Horses, is published with Liverpool University Press (Pavilion Poetry). She currently lives in Avon, Colorado.
“This is a technically competent, enjoyable collection…You will feel your humanity strengthened by reading it.” — The High Windo
“My Dark Horses offers no easy solutions but rather, hard-won understanding.” — The Poetry School
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