Louis Simpson & Elaine Schwager
DATE: December 8, 2001
TIME: 2:00 pm
FREE
St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City
http://www.rattapallax.com
Louis Simpson has published seventeen books of
original poetry, including Nombres et poussiere
(Paris, France: Atelier La Feugraie, 1996); There You
Are (Story Line, 1995); In the Room We Share(1990);
Collected Poems (1988); People Live Here: Selected
Poems 1949-83 (1983); The Best Hour of the Night
(1983); Caviare at the Funeral (1980); Armidale
(1979); Searching for the Ox (1976); Adventures of the
Letter I (1971); Selected Poems (1965); At the End of
the Open Road, Poems (1963), for which he won the
Pulitzer Prize; A Dream of Governors (1959). He is
also the author of a memoir, The King My Father's
Wreck (Story Line, 1995), and published a volume
entitled Selected Prose in 1989. His Modern Poets of
France: A Bilingual Anthology (Story Line Press) won
the Academy's 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation
Award. Among his many other honors are the Prix de
Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and
the Columbia Medal for Excellence. Mr. Simpson lives
in Setauket, New York.
Elaine Schwager is a poet, practicing psychoanalyst
and screenwriter, living in New York City. She has had
poems in Rattapallax, Literal Latte, Writ (Toronto),
The World (St. Mark's Poetry Project), Armadillo,
Promethean, Gaia and many other literary publications.
Her poems have also been in two anthologies: It Is the
Poem Singing in Your Eyes (Harper and Row) and City in
All Directions (Macmillan). She has been awarded
residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Woodstock
Guild and The Vermont Studio Center. He first
collection, I Want Your Chair, was published by
Rattapallax Press.
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