Poetry Reading@ Stanford Humanities Center: Kay Ryan & Atsuro Riley

Poetry Reading @ Stanford Humanities Center

Kay Ryan & Atsuro Riley

7:30 PM

Stanford Humanities Center--Levinthal Hall

424 Santa Teresa St. (Behind the Faculty Club; across from Fire Truck House)

Free.

Refreshments served.

Kay Ryan is the author of six books of poems, including Say Uncle (2000), and Elephant Rocks (1996), both from the Grove Press Poetry Series. Her book Flamingo Watching (1995) was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She was born in California and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Since 1971 she has lived in Marin County. Her awards include The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (The Poetry Foundation), an Ingram Merrill Award, an NEA Fellowship, the Union League Poetry Prize (Poetry Magazine), the Maurice English Poetry Award, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Ms. Ryan's work has been selected twice for The Best American Poetry, and included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Parnassus, The Paris Review, and many other journals.

Atsuro Riley's work has appeared in The Threepenny Review and, most recently, in Poetry (March 2004). He was awarded a grant from The Artists Fund of the Peninsula Community Foundation in 2003.