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Event Name:

Word Thursdays - Alfred Corn

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Aug 23 2012 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Aug 23 2012 at 10:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

Bright Hill Literary Center

Contact Name:

Bertha Rogers

Contact Email Address:

wordthur@stny.rr.com

Contact Phone Number:

607-829-5055

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

ALFRED CORN, Hopkinton, RI, is the author of nine books of poems, the most recent titled Contradictions. In 2008 the University of Michigan Press published Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007. He has also published a novel, titled Part of His Story, a collection of essays titled The Metamorphoses of Metaphor, and The Poem’s Heartbeat, a study of prosody. Fellowships for his poetry include the Guggenheim, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, UCLA, and Oklahoma State. He spends half of every year in the U.K., and in the spring of 2011 Pentameters Theatre in London produced his play Lowell’s Bedlam. Free to age 18 and under.