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Poetry off the Shelf
Featured Poets:Marge Piercy, Ira Wood
April 17, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL
Marge Piercy is the author of eighteen poetry collections and seventeen novels, and her work has been translated into nineteen languages. She also co-authored with Ira Wood So You Want To Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and Personal Narrative. Ira Wood is the author of three novels, a teacher, a former publisher, and the host of a weekly radio program called “The Lowdown” on WOMR-FM, Cape Cod’s Community Radio Station. His short pieces have been published in Ploughshares, Tikkun, and Fifth Wednesday Journal, among many other literary magazines. In 1996 he and Piercy established the Leapfrog Press, an internationally distributed “boutique” publishing company, which they sold in 2007. A reception will follow.
Sponsored by Poetry Foundation
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