Bruce Smith & Jules Gibbs

Start: Oct 30 2009 7:00 pm

Brazos Bookstore is proud to present Bruce Smith and Jules Gibbs, a power poetry couple visiting Houston from the fine city of Syracuse, New York.

Bruce Smith is a visiting professor at the University of Houston, and a full-time professor at the creative writing program at Syracuse University. He's the author of five books of poetry: The Common Wages, Silver and Information (National Poetry Series, selected by Hayden Carruth), Mercy Seat, The Other Lover, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and, most recently, Songs for Two Voices. His sixth book of poems, Devotions, will be published this spring. His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Partisan Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and many other publications. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and was a winner of the Discovery/The Nation Prize. In 2000 he was a Guggenheim fellow and has twice been a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Jules Gibbs is visiting from Syracuse, NY, teaching poetry at Inprint and Black Middle School, through the auspices of Writers In The Schools. She's been a fellow at the Ucross Foundation, and her commissioned poem was part of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver this summer. Her poems currently appear or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, The Antioch Review, The Los Angeles Review, MARGIE, Salt Hill Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, The New Anonymous, Stone Canoe, and Born Magazine, among other journals. Her work was recently selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2009, an anthology due out later this month from University of Virginia Press.