Poets David St. John and Anna Journey will join moderator
David Lehman, for what promises to be a great event on Tuesday, October 9th
at the New School. David St. John’s new book The Auroras (Harper) is the first collection of new poems in eight years from the National Book
Award finalist, while Anna Journey’s collection, Vulgar Remedies (Louisiana State University Press) will be
released next year.
David St. John has been honored, over the
course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes
for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an
Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic
achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the George Drury Smith
Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to The Auroras, David St. John is the author of ten collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for
The National Book Award in Poetry), as well as a volume of essays, interviews,
and reviews entitled Where the Angels
Come Toward Us. He is the co-editor, with Cole Swensen, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New
Poetry. He teaches in The Ph. D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing
at The University of Southern California and lives in Venice Beach.
(c) Stephanie Diani
is the author of two collections of poetry:
Vulgar Remedies (Louisiana State
University Press, 2013) and
If Birds
Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected
by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She received a fellowship in
poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and teaches creative
writing at the University of Southern California.
