Poet Claudia Stanek, reading from her recently released chapbook, Language You Refuse to Learn, which was a co-winner of Bright Hill
Press’s 2014 annual contest. Book
signing to follow the reading.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: St.
John Fisher College, Golisano Gateway Midlevel, 3690 East Avenue,
Rochester, NY 14618
Cost: Free and
Open to the Public
Contact: M.J.Iuppa,
385-8412
St. John Fisher
College, Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program hosts Poet Claudia Stanek’s
reading from her recently released award-winning poetry chapbook Language You Refuse to Learn, Bright
Hills Press, 2014.
Rochester, NY~Claudia M. Stanek grew up in the blur of murmurs and silences
of Polish-accented English while literally living on the border of
Polish-Catholic steel town Depew and German-Lutheran rural Lancaster in Western
New York State. Her award-winning chapbook,
Language You Refuse to Learn, has just been released from Bright
Hill Press (September 2014). Other poems have appeared in
Conte Online,
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics & Prose,
Euphony, Ruminate, and
Fourth
River, among others, as well as the anthologies
Cinquainicity
(Palettes & Quills, 2009),
Community Voices (University of
Rochester, 2009),
Knocking on the Silence: A Finger Lakes Anthology (Foothills,
2005),
Le Mot Juste (Foothills, 2005-2010)
, and
Common
Intuitions (Palettes & Quills, 2003)
. Her poem “Housewife” was
the inspiration for composer Judith Lang Zaimont’s commissioned libretto for
the 2009 Eastman School of Music’s Women in Music Festival. Claudia received a
Significant Opportunity Stipend from the Arts & Cultural Council of Greater
Rochester and was awarded a writer's residency in Poland. Her work
has been translated into as well as published in Polish. She holds an MFA from
Bennington College and lives in East Rochester, NY where she and her rescued
pets enjoy viewing the birches from her reading nook. Her web site is www.poeticeffect.com.
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