SPC Next Reading: Jeff Knorr and Keith Ratzlaff

Sacramento Poetry Center Presents
Jeff Knorr and Keith Ratzlaff
Monday, January 18, 2010 at 7:30 PM
HQ for the Arts at 1719 25th Street

Keith Ratzlaff

Keith Ratzlaff's books of poetry are Then, A Thousand Crows (Anhinga, 2009) Dubious Angels: Poems after Paul Klee (Anhinga 2005); Man Under A Pear Tree (winner of the Anhinga Prize in 1996); and Across The Known World (Mid-Prairie, 1998). His awards include the 1996 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, New England Review, The Threepenny Review, Colorado Review and North American Review. His recent poems also appear in "Poets of the New Century"(David R. Godine, 2001); "A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry"(University of Iowa Press, 2003); "Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets" (Anhinga Press, 2004) and The Best American Poetry 2009 ed. By David Lehman. He is Professor of English at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where he teaches writing and literature.


Jeff Knorr

Jeff Knorr has published three books of poetry The Third Body (Cherry Grove, 2007), Keeper (Mammoth Books, 2004), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press, 1999). and he has published three creative writing textbooks A Writers Country (Prentice Hall, 2001), The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall, 2003), and Mooring Against the Tide (Prentice Hall, 2005). His work has appeared in Chelsea, Clackamas Literary Review, Connecticut Review, Fugue, MacGuffin, Oxford Magazine, Red Rock Review and in the anthologies Clockpunchers (Partisan Press, 2002), and American Diaspora (University of Iowa Press, 2001). He is currently loving his job as Department Chair of the English Department at Sacramento City College where he has recently initiated Project Positive.

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