Name: A Snapshot of the Auxillary
Start: 2017-09-30T10:45:00-0600
End: 2017-09-30T11:45:00-0600

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A Snapshot of the Auxillary

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No fewer than nine former students of the late Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees are publishing new books in 2017: Tom Aslin, David Axelrod, Candace Black, Laurie Blauner, Patricia Clark, Tom Mitchell, Walter Pavlich, Rick Robbins, Lex Runiman, and Robert Wrigley. More than half of these same writers are Lost Horse or Lynx House Press poets. All of the writers here, too, have remained deeply committed to a poetics learned in Missoula: rhythmical complexity, clarity, and humor, while giving voice to the voiceless or marginalized. We propose a reading in gratitude to Missoula, a city that has imprinted itself on our lives and has influenced our work for a generation or more.

Speakers

Tom Aslin

Thomas Aslin's books include a chapbook, Sweet Smoke, and two full length collections, A Moon Over Wings and Salvage.

David Axelrod

David Axelrod is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent, The Open Hand (Lost Horse Press, 2017). He is editor of Sensational Nightingales: The Collected Poetry of Walter Pavlich (Lynx House Press, 2017), and a collection of essays, Troubled Intimacies (OSU Press... Read More →

Candace Black

Candace Black lives in south-central Minnesota and teaches creative writing at Minnesota State University Mankato. She has published two books of poetry—The Volunteer (New Rivers Press, 2003), Whereabouts (Snake Nation Press, 2017)—and a chapbook, Casa Marina (RopeWalk... Read More →