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Join us for our January poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Tony Barnstone & Maurya Simon
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, January 25, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
About the poets:
Maurya Simon’s twelfth volume of poems, The Blue Bridge, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press in 2025. Her earlier volume, La Sirena: A Novella in Verse (2024) was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee. Another collection, The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, received the 2019 Independent Booksellers Association’s Gold Medal in Poetry. A Fulbright Senior Research Fellow (South India), NEA Poetry Fellow, and a Poetry Society’s Lucille Medwick Memorial and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awardee, she’s served residencies at the American Academy in Rome, the Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators (Sweden), Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), and the MacDowell Colony.Simon’s poems have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Rumanian, Bengali, Greek, and Farsi. She serves as a Professor Emerita in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside.
Tony Barnstone teaches at Whittier College and is the author of 23 books and a music CD. His new book of poems is Apocryphal Poems (Nirala Press, 2024). His other books of poetry include Pulp Sonnets; Beast in the Apartment; Buda en Llamas: Antología poética (bilingual); Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki; The Golem of Los Angeles; Sad Jazz: Sonnets; and Impure. He is also a translator or co-translator of world literature, primarily Chinese but also Spanish and Urdu. Among his awards are: The Poets Prize, the Strokestown International Prize, the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, The John Ciardi Prize, The Benjamin Saltman Award, and fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and California Arts Council. He has also co-edited the anthologies Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the United States; Dead and Undead Poems; and Monster Verse. His new publications are a co-translation from the Urdu, Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected Ghazals of Ghalib and a creativity tool, The Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity. His forthcoming book is the critical study titled William Carlos Williams and Technological Modernism. He is currently working on a libretto for an opera. His website is https://www.whittier.edu/academics/english/barnstone.
Please note that Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
208 N Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, United States
