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Superstition Review Reading Series

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March 16, 2009

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ASU English Professors Cynthia Hogue and Peter Turchi will be reading in this series. The reading series is free to the public and refreshments are provided by a collaboration with the ASU Polytechnic's Community Supported Agriculture program (polycsa.org), featuring fresh local produce. Cynthia Hogue has published five collections of poetry: Where the Parallels Cross (1984), The Woman in Red (1989), The Never Wife (1999), Flux (2002), and The Incognito Body (2006). Her poems have been praised for their intelligence, elegant compression, and chiseled syntax. Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship (on race and gender history), and the H.D. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Also known for her criticism and scholarship, Professor Hogue has been called one of the few critics well versed in contemporary theoretical debates who is also a skilled reader of poetry. Her books and essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen, have explored the possibilities for ethical, poetic subjects and the transformation of consciousness. Her critical work includes Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY P, 1995), and the following co-edited editions: We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art (U of Alabama P, 2001), Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews (U of Iowa P, 2006), and the first edition of H.D.ʼs The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton (UP of Florida, 2007). Peter Turchi is the author of five books: a novel, The Girls Next Door; a collection of stories, Magician; a non-fiction account of the exploits of treasure hunter Barry Clifford, co-written with the subject; an artist's exhibit catalog, Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie; and Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. He has also co-edited, with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, and, with Andrea Barrett, The Story Behind the Story: Twenty-Six Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has taught at Northwestern University, Appalachian State, and the University of Houston, and for fifteen years he directed and taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

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  March 16, 2009

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  Monday 7:30pm

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  ASU Polytechnic Campus

  7001 East Williams Field Road Mesa, AZ 85212

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