We
are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Reading on March 5 are the following
poets:
E. M. Janik’s poems have been published in Visions International, The New Mexico Humanities Review, Mind in Motion, and Soundings East.
By day she works as the Corporate Communications Manager for an IT
Services and Technical Training firm; by night she writes, and lives on
the New Hampshire seacoast with her husband, Jay West, and their pet
rabbit, Emerson.
Clara Silverstein is the author of the memoir White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation, and three cookbooks. Her poems have been published in literary journals including Blackbird, the Paterson Literary Review, and The Comstock Review and a short non-fiction piece was broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Her articles and essays appear in Runner’s World, Hemispheres magazine, the Boston Globe, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She directs the summer Chautauqua Writers' Center in western New York and teaches at Grub Street in Boston.
Brittany
Perham is the Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, where
she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2009-2011, and she also teaches in
the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco. Her first
collection of poems, The Curiosities,
was published by Parlor Press in 2012. She is the recipient of the
Henry Hoyns Fellowship from the University of Virginia, the Magliocco
Prize for Poetry given by the Bellevue Literary Review, and an Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics. Her work, twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, may be found in Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Linebreak, Lo-Ball, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco where she is a founding member of the word/music project Nonstop Beautiful Ladies.
