Susan Aizenberg - Live from Prairie Lights
Sep 21, 2024
04:00 PM
15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Iowa City poet Susan Aizenberg will read from A Walk With Frank O’Hara: Poems, published by the University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, edited by Hilda Raz. "Susan Aizenberg is a poet with a wonderfully distinct voice — the poems in A Walk With Frank O'Hara have that difficult-to-achieve illusion of effortlessness I deeply admire, with no fussiness or straining for effect, but rather a clean elegance that allows Aizenberg's natural lyricism to shine. Aizenberg is one of the most accomplished poets writing in America today." —Erin Belieu
"Susan Aizenberg embraces influences — including Denise Levertov, Stephen Dunn, and Louis Simpson — to create exquisite narratives about human freedom. . . . Her poems shimmer with clarity. Her meditations marvel." —Denise Duhamel
Susan Aizenberg is the author of the poetry collections Quiet City and Muse and the co-editor of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. She lives in Iowa City.
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