{"id":27957,"date":"2019-10-11T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2019-10-11T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T06:00:27","slug":"zone-3-to-host-crane-givhan-for-poetry-reading-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/11\/zone-3-to-host-crane-givhan-for-poetry-reading-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Zone 3 to host Crane, Givhan for poetry reading at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On October 17th, 2019, at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Art + Design building Room 120, Zone 3 Press will celebrate its First Book Award in Poetry when it welcomes Patty Crane and Jenn Givhan for a reading at 8:00pm.<\/p>\n

All reading series events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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Patty Crane<\/h3>\n
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Patty Crane<\/p><\/div>\n

Crane\u2019s manuscript Bell I Wake To<\/em> was selected by Givhan as winner of the 2018 contest.<\/p>\n

Crane won $1,000, and Zone 3 is publishing her book this fall.<\/p>\n

Crane\u2019s book-length poem, something flown<\/em>, was winner of the 2017 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award. Her poetry and her translations of Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer have appeared in numerous journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, Verse Daily, West Branch, American Poetry Review, Blackbird<\/em> and The New York Times<\/em>. Bright<\/em> Scythe<\/em>, a bilingual volume of her translations, was published by Sarabande Books in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Jenn Givhan<\/h3>\n
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Jenn Givhan<\/p><\/div>\n

Givhan grew up in Southern California\u2019s Imperial Valley. She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an M.A. in English literature from California State University-Fullerton.<\/p>\n

She is the author of Protection Spell <\/em>(University of Arkansas Press, 2017), selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Miller Williams Series, and Landscape with Headless Mama <\/em>(Louisiana State University Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Pleiades Editors\u2019 Prize. Givhan has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a PEN\/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship.<\/p>\n

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