ATL Bookmarks: 5 Events to hit this week February 04 2013
Melanie Benjamin let’s the story of Anne Spencer Morrow take flight, Eileen Myles reads at Emory, Vouched Presents returns to the Goatfarm, and more!
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- Eileen Myles
This week Emory’s Poetry Council has teamed up with Emory’s Office of LGBT Life, the Center for Women, and a grant from the Hightower fund to bring us poetry giant (and former write-in candidate for President) Eileen Myles. Bringing her to Atlanta via New York is no small accomplishment- Myles has earned accolades such as the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Warhol/Creative Capital grant, and the position of Professor Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. Her accomplishments have not stripped her of her edge, though: New York Times critic Holland Carter once called her “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk female writer-performers.” She’ll be reading from her latest collection, Snowflake/Different Streets, at Emory’s Harland Cinema at 8 p.m.
Kill Your Darlings Writer’s Workshop
Feb. 4 | 8 p.m.
Park Grounds
A bi-weekly writing workshop for writers of every make and mode. Essayists, poets, novelists - all are welcome. It’s an opportunity to bond over the written word and get to know a community - with or without writing in tow.
Naked City Presents “VIOLENCE”
Feb 4 | 8:30p
The Goat Farm Arts Center
This raucous, avant-garde open-mic returns to the Goat Farm for an evening of barbarity. Hosts Bernard Setaro Clark and Gina Rickicki challenge writers of every vein to take on the evening’s theme of violence and clock it in the jaw once or twice. This is literary bloodsport at its best. Competitors get five minutes in the ring. $10-25 pay-what-you-can at the door to attend.