{"id":16408,"date":"2013-10-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=16408"},"modified":"2013-10-01T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:02:24","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-to-have-reading-by-poets-nancy-eimers-and-karen-skolfield-october-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/01\/austin-peay-state-university-to-have-reading-by-poets-nancy-eimers-and-karen-skolfield-october-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University to have reading by Poets Nancy Eimers and Karen Skolfield October 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In early 2012, award-winning poet Nancy Eimers read a poetry collection that was tender and serious, but also deeply funny and playful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a poet who pays attention to small wonders, who marvels that \u2018sticks \/ can walk\u2019 and \u2018the roots of trees gather \/ forgotten rains,\u2019 who takes to heart \u2018the river’s stillness behind a fallen log,\u2019 and yearns over human fragility, a child’s hand with its \u2018twiggish bones, the little covering of skin,\u2019\u201d Eimers later wrote. \u201cIn and around and under the wit these poems are enormously tender.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>

Karen Skolfield<\/p><\/div>\n

At the time, Eimers was serving as judge of the Austin Peay State University Zone 3 Press First Book of Poetry Award, and she awarded the prize to the manuscript in her hands, \u201cFrost in the Low Area,\u201d by Karen Skolfield.<\/p>\n

At 4:00pm on October 3rd, both poets will read from their work at the APSU Morgan University Center, Ballroom C. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Skolfield teaches travel writing and technical writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also earned her Master of Fine Arts. She is contributing editor at Bateau Press and the literary magazine Stirring, and her poems have appeared in 2011 Best of the Net Anthology, Cave Wall, Memorious, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, West Branch and others.<\/p>\n

Eimers is the author of four poetry collections: \u201cOz,\u201d \u201cA Grammar to Waking,\u201d \u201cNo Moon\u201d and \u201cDestroying Angel.\u201d She has received a Whiting Writers Award, two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Field, Paris Review, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review and Triquarterly. Her work has also appeared in anthologies, such as \u201cBest American Poetry,\u201d \u201cPoets of the New Century\u201d and \u201cThe New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry is a biennial contest hosted by APSU\u2019s literary journal and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. In alternate years, the press sponsors the Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Book Award.<\/p>\n

For more information on the reading or the annual Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry, contact Susan Wallace, Zone 3 editor, at wallacess@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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