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Disparate Voices Coalesce As Famed Poets Read At Dowling College
Elegance meets energy as Marie Ponsot, winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award, among other honors, and "Ringmaster
of the Spoken Word" Bob Holman, take to the podium in the Fortunoff Hall
Hunt Room on Dowling College\'s Rudolph Campus in Oakdale on Tuesday,
March 8, at 4:00 p.m. The reading will be followed by a discussion and
book signing, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served.
Throughout her long and distinguished career, Marie Ponsot\'s work has
won her accolades, among them Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, the
Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern
Language Association. Her latest book, Springing (Knopf, 2002) includes
new and selected poems from her more than fifty years of writing.
Bob Holman brings all the energy of the vibrant, downtown New York
poetry scene that he helps to shape into his own work. Recently dubbed a
member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the New York Times Magazine, Holman
has previously been crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York
Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), and "Dean of the Scene"
(Seventeen). The series he produced for PBS, The United States of
Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove,
Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as
rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and slammers.
Holman\'s first CD, In With The Out Crowd, produced by Hal Willner and
backed by Chris Spedding, Wayne Kramer, and Bobby Neuwirth, moves from
rock to country to ballad. Holman\'s latest collection of poems, The
Collect Call of the Wild, (Henry Holt) was proclaimed "the first poetic
drop-kick into the new millennium" by Next magazine and "Impressive
(to say the least)" by Robert Creeley. It is Holman\'s fifth book. He
is currently collaborating on Praise Poems, a book of poems and photos
with Chuck Close. He also co-edited Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican
Poets Cafe (also from Holt), winner of the American Book Award, having
helped reopen the Cafe in 1989, where he ran the infamous Poetry Slams
through 1996.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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