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POETRY
READING AT LOVELAND MUSEUM/GALLERY OCTOBER 16, 2008:
KATE KINGSTON AND NANCY TAKACS
Thursday, October 16 7 p.m.
Trinidad based poet Kate Kingston will read
new poems developed over the past two years at residencies at
the Harwood Museum, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the San Miguel
Poetry Conference, and Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain.
These poems explore historical characters (such as Josefa
Carson, Kit’s third wife) through their connection to landscape.
Several of these poems have received awards including first
place in the Ruth Stone Prize, Hunger Mountain; finalist
in the Best Poem Contest, Margie; semi-finalist in the
Pablo Neruda Prize, Nimrod, and International Publication
Prize Winner in the Atlanta Review. Ms. Kingston is the author
of two collections of poetry, El Rio de las Animas
Perdidas en Purgatorio, White Eagle Coffee Store Press,
2006, and In My Dreams Neruda, Main Street Rag, 2005. Her
poems have been published in numerous anthologies and literary
journals.
Nancy Takacs will be reading from her third
book of poems titled, Juniper, which will be released
early this fall from Limberlost Press, a hand-letter press that
does poetry. The poems are predominately nature poems drawing
from the landscape of the Central Eastern Utah desert. Many of
the poems, although looking at wildlife, could also be called
love poems – the relatedness and also rootlessness in growing
both together and separately inside a 30-year marriage in Price
Utah.
Nancy Takacs lives in Wellington, Utah. She
is the author of Pale Blue Wings, Limberlost Press, 2001;
and Preserves, City Art Press, 2004. She has been the
recipient of several poetry awards, including the Utah Arts
Council Book Competition and the Nation/Discovery Award, as well
as grants and fellowships. She recently took early retirement
after teaching Creative Writing for 20 years at the College of
Eastern Utah in Price. She also spends time in Bayfield,
Wisconsin, near Lake Superior.
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