Events: September 2007 Archives
Author Bob Perelman will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Bob Perelman has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently IFLIFE, The Future of Memory, Ten to One: Selected Poems, and Playing Bodies (a collaboration with painter Francie Shaw). His critical books include The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. He has also edited Writing/Talks, a collection of talks by poets. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.
Author A. Myrna Nurse will read from and discuss her book, Unheard Voices: The Rise of Steelband and Calypso in the Caribbean and North America on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library, 1:00-2:30pm. Nurse's book traces the steelband movement's history from its inception in the Caribbean to its growth in North America.
A reception will immediately follow the reading.
Author Caroline Seebohm will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Caroline Seebohm writes in many genres, and her novels include: The Last Romantics, plus her recently published The Time of Their Lives.
Her illustrated nonfiction books include: English Country (with photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes), Private Landscapes, At Home with Books, At Home with Art, Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South, Great Houses and Gardens of New Jersey and Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore.
Her biographies include: The Man who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Conde Nast, No Regrets: The Life of Marietta Tree, and Boca Rococo – How Addison Mizner Invented
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday. September 20th at 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.
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