Reading: Live at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City: June 22 Christine Hemp

 

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“Live from Prairie Lights” is an internationally known readings series, which features some of the best up-and-coming and well-established authors & poets from all over the globe. Presented before a live audience and streamed over the world wide web, this long running series brings the spoken word from the bookstore to the masses.

Most readings begin @ 7:00 p.m. Arrive early to assure yourself a seat.

 

June 22, 2011 – 7:00pm
Prairie Lights
CHRISTINE HEMP
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Christine Hemp will read from her first collection of poetry, That Fall. In Christine Hemp’s powerful debut collection, we find poem after poem pulled in two directions: upward with mercurial and transformative grace, and downward toward the earth, the relational root, “the buried seam that joins all things.” — Bruce Bond

Christine Hemp earned her B.A. in Humanities from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; she holds a Masters degree in English from Middlebury College in Vermont with study at Lincoln College, Oxford, England.

About Christine Hemp

Poet and writer Christine Hemp has aired her poems and essays on NPR’s Morning Edition; she has sent a poem of hers into space on a NASA mission to monitor the birth of stars; and her essays have appeared in such publications as the Iowa Review, Yale Anglers Journal, and the Boston Globe. Her awards include Harvard Extension School’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, and an Iowa Review Award. Her poetry collection, That Fall, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Hemp teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
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