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Reading and Conversation with Brittany Perham and Peter Kline

Reading and Conversation with Brittany Perham and Peter Kline In-Person

Join us for an evening with Brittany Perham and Peter Kline, Writers-In-Residence with The Community Library at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House.

Brittany and Peter will share selected readings, engage in a conversation about their work, and take questions from the audience. This program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. Click here to watch online.

Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press) and Deviants (SFASU Press).  A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House, and he was has won the Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and The Columbia Review Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and the Persea anthology of self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, and can be found online at www.peterklinepoetry.com. 

Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton), which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative word/art project The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP). Her work has been supported by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the James Merrill House Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.

Date:
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time:
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Time Zone:
Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
Campus:
The Community Library
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Lectures & Conversations  
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Brittany Perham photo by Marco Giugliarelli.

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