Join Us!
Come
hear Professor Susan Gubernat read her poetry…
Chabot Library
Tuesday, April 16th
12-1 pm
Our
winning student poets will share their work with us for the first half hour
then Professor Gubernat will read from her work. We would love to have you
enjoy this with us.
Susan
Gubernat’s
first book of poems, Flesh (Helicon Nine Editions), won the
Marianne Moore Prize; her chapbook Analog House, was published in 2011
by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review,
Gargoyle, Michigan Quarterly, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Stand (U.K.),
The Yalobusha Review, among others. An opera librettist, her major work,
Korczak’s Orphans (composer: Adam Silverman), has been performed in a
number of venues, and by a number of companies, including in the VOX New
Composers Series of the New York City Opera and by the Opera Company of
Brooklyn. Gubernat is a Professor in the English Department at California State
University, East Bay, where she inaugurated and now advises the award-winning
annual magazine, the Arroyo Literary Review. Her own awards and honors
include residencies at the MacDowell, Millay, Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts, and Yaddo colonies, as well as artist’s fellowships from the states of
New York and New Jersey.
*sponsored by ASCC
(special thanks to those wonderful folks), the Chabot Library, and the English
Dept.
