On Saturday 8th November 2008 Jorie Graham will hold a Masterclass as part of the  Liverpool Literary Festival - Shipping Lines - 10.30am -12.30pm at the Bluecoat

Poets are invited to submit work to be workshopped with Jorie Graham, or simply to attend...

£5/£3/£1  book through the Philharmonic Box Office 0151 709 3789

Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including
her most recent, Sea Change (Ecco, 2008). She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays. Graham's many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.

This is a unique opportunity to  work with and learn from a great poet.

Anyone wishing to submit a poem for consideration should send to:
reneehemmings@thereader.org.uk