Gary Duehr Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)

In the fall of 2004, Gary Duehr published Potato Chips for Dinner: Poems 1984-2004. His previous books of poetry are Beautiful Bullets, Winter Light, and Where Everyone Is Going To. He has also published the chapbooks Connie Stevens Is Flying Over the Pacific Ocean, In the Bar Apocalypse Now, and Between Things. Duehr has taught poetry and writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Journals in which his poems have appeared include Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review. In addition, Duehr co-directs the Invisible Cities Group, which creates large-scale performances combining theatrical elements, installations of visual art, and poetry.

Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu