Tuesday, June 26, 2018

June 26, 2018 (Friend, Norman, Laurentiis, Derricotte)

Hemingway's Poetry Series
June 26, 2018

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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Liane Ellison Norman & Joan Bauer
Seated L-R: Malcolm Friend, Rickey Laurentiis & Toi Derricotte

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Rickey Laurentiis & Toi Derricotte


Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of  Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017), and has received awards and fellowships from organizations including CantoMundo, VONA/Voices of Our Nations, Backbone Press, the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics, and the University of Memphis. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including La Respuesta magazine, Vinyl, Word Riot, The Acentos Review, and Pretty Owl Poetry. His first full-length book of poetry, Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple, was the winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize and will be published by the Inlandia Institute in 2018.


Liane Ellison Norman’s most recent book of poems, The Solid Earth is a Restless Place, was published by Smoke & Mirrors Press in 2018. Way Station, was issued by Finishing Line Press in 2017. Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems, was published by Bottom Dog Press in 2012, a year in which a chapbook, Driving Near the Old Federal Arsenal, was released by Finishing Line Press and Roundtrip by Yesterdays Parties Press.  Norman has published individual poems in the North American Review, KestrelThe Fourth River, 5 AM, Grasslimb, Rune, Hot Metal Press and in Voices From the Attic and Come Together: Imagine Peace anthologies. She won the Wisteria Prize for poetry in 2006 from Paper Journey Press and has published two earlier books of poetry, The Duration of Grief and Keep; a book about nonviolent protest against nuclear bomb parts makers, Mere Citizens: United, Civil and Disobedient, a biography, Hammer of Justice: Molly Rush and the Plowshares Eight, a novel, Stitches in Air: A Novel About Mozart’s Mother, and many articles, essays and reviews. 


Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, to love the dark. His poetry has been supported by several foundations and fellowships, including the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, Poetry International Rotterdam, the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, which awarded him a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2012. In 2016, he traveled to Palestine as an invited reader for the Palestine Festival of Literature. He is the author of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery award, as well as named one of the top ten debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine and a top 16 best poetry books by Buzzfeed, among other distinctions. His poems have have been translated into Arabic, Spanish and Ukrainian. Laurentiis' interests include visual culture, ekphrasis, shade, revisionary logics, penetration and the body, radical justice, cultural studies and shame. He has taught at a selection of institutions, including Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the 92nd Street Y. He is the inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.



Toi Derricotte is the author of The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and four earlier collections of poetry, including Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton), received the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her honors include, among many others, the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes and the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists. Derricotte is the co-founder of Cave Canem Foundation (with Cornelius Eady), Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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