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Word Thursdays - Michael Jennings and Maxine Susman

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Oct 14 2010 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Oct 14 2010 at 9:00 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 Description:

Michael Jennings was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans and grew up in east Texas and the deserts of southwestern Iran before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the graduate program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. He is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Silky Thefts (Orchises Press 2007), Once (FootHills Press 2008), and Bone-Songs and Sanctuaries, New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press 2009). He is also a world renowned breeder and judge of the Siberian Husky and has written three books on the breed. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Stone Canoe, and Tar River Poetry. He lives with his wife, poet Suzanne Shane, on Otisco Lake in Upstate New York, along with their pack of Siberians and a cautious cat. Maxine Susman has published dozens of poems in journals and anthologies including Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Fourth River, Ekphrasis, Eathe's Daughters, and Home Planet News. She has won citations form a number of poetry contests, most recently the Allen Ginsberg Contest, Dogwood Journal, and the Black Lawrence Chapbook Competition. Her chapbook Gogama (Sheltering Pines Press) recounts the story of her father's live as a young Jewish doctor in remote Northern Ontario during the Great Depression. Wartime Address (Pudding House Press) tells the true story of a young Englishwoman caught in Occupied Paris during World War II before escaping to Marseilles. Familiar (Finishing Line Press) centers on family, travel, and personal history. She is currently working on a poem sequence about her mother who was a pioneering medical student during the 1930's. Born and raised in Mt. Vernon, NY, Maxine is a longtime resident of Highland Park, NJ where she lives with her husband Jay Harris and their dog Mindela. She is Professor of English at Caldwell College and has taught at Duksung Woman's University in Seoul, Korea. She belongs to the US 1 Poets Cooperative and Cool Women, a poetry critique/ performance