{"id":8100,"date":"2011-09-19T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2011-09-19T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T05:50:17","slug":"poetry-reading-held-at-austin-peay-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/19\/poetry-reading-held-at-austin-peay-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry reading held at Austin Peay State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On September 15th, at 4:00pm, two Award-winning Poets gave a poetry reading at the APSU&#8217;s Gentry Auditorium in the Kimbrough Building.<\/p>\n<p>American Book Award-winning author and poet Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez, visited APSU to read his work. Afterwards, he introduced Amanda Auchter who read from her prize-winning collection. Her book, \u201cThe Glass Crib,\u201d 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<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2011 APSU Poetry Reading September 15th\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WdS3DBY1ids?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><!--more-->\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<p>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<p>For more information on this reading, contact Susan Wallace, Zone 3 managing editor, at <a href=\"mailto:wallacess@apsu.edu\">wallacess@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On September 15th, at 4:00pm, two Award-winning Poets gave a poetry reading at the APSU&#8217;s Gentry Auditorium in the Kimbrough Building. American Book Award-winning author and poet Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez, visited APSU to read his work. Afterwards, he introduced Amanda Auchter who read from her prize-winning collection. 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