{"id":7661,"date":"2011-08-15T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:11:28","slug":"two-award-winning-poets-to-read-at-apsu-on-september-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/15\/two-award-winning-poets-to-read-at-apsu-on-september-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Award-winning Poets to Read at APSU on September 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – A few months ago, the noted American poet and Guggenheim Fellow Michael Burkard flipped through a new book of poetry by Amanda Auchter. It took him a while to finish it because he kept pausing to think about what he\u2019d just read.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am often stopped by set moments and phrasings in these poems, and despite the emotional facts of so many of the poems, I rest there, among various phrases, and feel language doing its, often strangely, quiet part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The book, \u201cThe Glass Crib,\u201d recently won the 2010 Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry, an annual contest hosted by Austin Peay State University\u2019s literary journal and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.<\/p>\n

\"Amanda<\/a>

Amanda Auchter<\/p><\/div>\n

At 4:00pm on September 15th, Auchter will visit APSU\u2019s Gentry Auditorium in the Kimbrough Building to deliver a reading from her prize-winning collection. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Glass Crib,\u201d which poet Amy Gerstler said is rendered with \u201cacute beauty, tenderness and measured dignity of expression,\u201d is a continuation of Auchter\u2019s already impressive literary career. She is the founding editor of the Pebble Lake Review, and throughout the years she has received several awards and honors from esteemed journals such as the Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Review and the Crab Orchard Review. Her work has also been included in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets and Poetry Daily.<\/p>\n

APSU\u2019s Zone 3 Literary Journal solicits submissions biennially for its First Book Award for Poetry Contest. Any individual who has not published a full-length collection of poems is eligible to participate, and the winner receives a $1,000 prize and publication of their work.<\/p>\n

\"Rigoberto<\/a>

Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p><\/div>\n

A nationally recognized poet is brought in for each contest to look over the submitted manuscripts and choose a winner. The man who selected Auchter\u2019s work for publication by Zone 3, American Book Award-winning author and poet Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez, will also visit APSU on September 15th to read his work.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez is the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, and he is a contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics\u2019 Circle and is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. His memoir, \u201cButterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa,\u201d won the American Book Award, and he is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, two bilingual children\u2019s books, a story collection and the novel, \u201cCrossing Vines.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on this reading, contact Susan Wallace, Zone 3 managing editor, at wallacess@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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