the chicago poetry calendar

Spring 2010

PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series

Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago


Alan Michael Parker & Matthew Shindell
Wednesday, March 3rd
5:30p.m.
Hokin Hall
623 South Wabash, Room 109



ALAN MICHAEL PARKER is the author of five collections of poems, including Elephants & Butterflies, a novel, Cry Uncle, and the editor or co-editor of three scholarly volumes. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Paris Review, among other magazines; his prose appears in journals including The Believer, and The New York Times Book Review; for the past fifteen years, his book reviews have appeared regularly in The New Yorker. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Pushcart Prize and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (for a poem on a humanitarian theme), he holds degrees from Washington University and Columbia University. He has taught at Davidson College since 1998, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing; he is also a Core Faculty member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program.



MATTHEW SHINDELL’s first full-length book of poems, In Another Castle, was a finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press First Book Award. He is the author of the Poetry Postcard Project and a limited edition chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting (University of Iowa Type Kitchen, 2001). His poems have appeared in numerous journals including American Letters and Commentary, The American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, FENCE, and Jubilat, and in the anthologies Digerati: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World (Three Candles Press, 2006) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books, 2006). He lives and writes in La Jolla, California where he is currently in the dissertation stage of a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of California, San Diego.