Monday, April 26, 2010

The Dannys Reading Series

Featuring:
Dara Wier & Michael Robins

Danny's Tavern (21+)
1951 W Dickens St.
Wednesday, April 28th
7:30 PM Sharp


Dara Wier's ten previous books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), which was awarded the Poetry Center Book Award. Her work has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The American Poetry Review. She lives and works in Amherst where she directs the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

Michael Robins is the author of the chapbook Circus (Flying Guillotine Press, 2009) and The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which received the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and lives in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.