Keith Ekiss and Gillian Wegener to Read at SPC

Presents

Keith Ekiss and Gillian Wegener

Monday July, 11, 2011 at 7:30 PM

1719 25th Street

Sacramento Poetry Center 25th and R

Guest Host: Dorine Jennette

Keith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook, published in 2010 by New Issues Poetry & Prose. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford from 2005-07, his poems have appeared in Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, New England Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park. His creative non-fiction has been anthologized in Permanent Vacation: Living and Working in Our National Parks (Bona Fide Books, 2011).

The recipient of a Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency from the Santa Fe Art Institute for his translations of the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, his translations have appeared widely in such journals as Circumference, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Subtropics. A former Artistic Director for the Center for the Art of Translation, he also translates the Uruguayan poet Sara de Ibañez.

Ekiss has been a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford since 2007, where he teaches courses in reading and writing poetry and other genres. As an instructor in Stanford's Online Writer's Studio, he teaches classes in poetry and creative non-fiction. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the poet Robin Ekiss, and their son Benjamin.



Gillian Wegener’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Runes, Tule Review, Packinghouse Review, In Posse, and Sow’s Ear. She is the author of the chapbook Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001), and the full-length collection The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008). In her poems, Wegener often engages the physical and social landscapes of California’s Central Valley. Of Wegener’s writing, Barbara Ras writes, “Whatever her subject — the natural world animated again and again by birds — or daily human settings — Wegener soars, delivering beautiful, heartfelt vistas with her sure knowing sight.” She lives in Modesto, California, where she coordinates and hosts Modesto’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series.