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The Silo Series presents a book launch for David Rivard and David Blair, two well-renowned poets and members of the MFA faculty at UNH, on November 17 to celebrate their brand new books.
All proceeds benefit The Word Barn
$5 suggested donation | Doors at 6:30pm | Reading at 7:00
ABOUT DAVID RIVARD
David Rivard’s Some of You Will Know was published in October by Arrowsmith Press. His earlier books include Standoff, Otherwise Elsewhere, Sugartown, Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison, and Torque. Rivard’s work has won the PEN/New England Prize in poetry, the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and he has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2006, Rivard was given the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize by the Folger Shakespeare Library in recognition of both his writing and teaching. He lives on the coast of Maine, and teaches at UNH.
excerpt from David Rivard:
"On some plane of existence
these two scraps are all my news:
where the mess is
that’s where my heart is."
ABOUT DAVID BLAIR
David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His new book is True Figures, Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Poems, 1998-2021. Blair is the author of four earlier collections of poetry, Ascension Days, Arsonville, Friends with Dogs, and Barbarian Seasons, and a collection of essays. Blair lives with his wife and daughter in Somerville, Massachusetts, and he teaches poetry in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire.
poem by David Blair:
For George Romero
The poor don’t shoot their zombies
in the heads. Not in your version.
The zombies do the right things
horribly: the man mourned
embraces his wife. Then he bites
her shoulder. And then they go
ice skating, but without skates.