Cervena Barva Press Reading Series, June 26th, 2024

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series
June 26th, 2024
Readers:
Jennifer Clarvoe
George Kalogeris
Susan Roney O'Brien
Cammy Thomas
Bios:
Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of two books of poetry: Invisible Tender (Fordham, 2000), and Counter-Amores (University of Chicago, 2011).
Born in Washington, DC, and educated at Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley, she taught literature and creative writing at Kenyon College for almost thirty years. Her awards and fellowships include the Kate Tufts Prize, and the Poets Out Loud Prize for Invisible Tender, a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, a residency at the James Merrill House, and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
George Kalogeris is the author of the falling books: Winthropos, Lousiana State University Press, 2021, Guide to Greece: Poems, Louisiana State University Press, 2018, Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation. Champaign, Illinois: Antilever Press, 2012, Forward by Rosanna Warren, Commentary by David Ferry, and Camus: Carnets. Lyric poems based on the Notebooks of Albert Camus. Brooklyn, New York: Pressed Wafer Press, 2006. Awards include the James Dickey Poetry Prize, 2018, Meringoff Prize for Poetry, Association of Literary Critics, Scholars and Writers, 2014, New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, 2013, Daniel Varoujan Award presented in honor of the Armenian victims of the Turkish Genocide, New England Poetry Club, 2008.
Susan Roney-O’Brien curates a monthly poetry venue and teaches writing through local libraries. Her poetry has been published widely, translated into Braille and Mandarin and nominated for many Pushcart Prizes. She won the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Medal in Poetry. Publications include chapbooks: Farmwife, the winner of the William and Kingman Page Poetry Book Award, and Earth (Cat Rock Press). Word Poetry published Legacy of the Lost World in 2016. Kelsay Books published Bone Circle, in 2018 and Thira in April, 2020. She and her husband run a small farm in central Massachusetts.
Cammy Thomas’ most recent book is Odysseus' Daughter (Parkman Press, 2023), poems written in response to the Odyssey. Her first book of poems, Cathedral of Wish (Four Way Books), received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete her second book, Inscriptions. Her third book, Tremors, received Poetry Honors from the 2022 Mass Book Awards.
Two of her poems are the text for Far Past War, a choral work by her sister, composer Augusta Read Thomas, which premiered with the Cathedral Choral Society, at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, March 13, 2022, (www.cammythomas.com)
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