Events

  To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, poets Alex Grant, whose most recent book Chains & Mirrors won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award, and Roy Jacobstein, an Adjunct Professor at the UNC School of Public Health and the author of five collections of poetry, including Fuchsia in Cambodia (Northwestern University), A Form of Optimism (Samuel French Morse Prize/Northeastern University) and Ripe (Felix Pollak Prize/University of Wisconsin) will read some of their work. A portion of tonight's sales will be donated to The Carolina Friends School Roy Jacobstein is the author of five collections of poetry, including Fuchsia in Cambodia (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2008), A Form of Optimism (Northeastern University Press, 2006, selected by Lucia Perillo for the Samuel French Morse Prize), and Ripe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, selected by Edward Hirsch for the Felix Pollak Prize). His work appears in many journals, including The Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Raleigh News & Observer, Southern Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. He has received the James Wright Poetry Prize, Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and the Humanistic Poetry Award of the American Anthropology Association, and has had work featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry Newspaper Series and Mc-Graw-Hill’s textbook LITERATURE: Reading Fiction, Poetry & Drama. He lives in Chapel Hill and is an Adjunct Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.   Alex Grant's most recent book Chains & Mirrors (NCWN/Harperprints) won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection). The White Book was released by Main St. Rag Publishing in 2008. Alex received Kakalak's 2006 Poetry Prize.  His full-length manuscript, Fear of Moving Water, a recent finalist for The Brittingham and Pollak, Dorset, The Tupelo Open, Lena-Miles Wever Todd and Philip Levine Prizes, will be released by Wind Publications very soon. His poems have appeared or are upcoming in a number of national journals and anthologies, including The Missouri Review, Arts & Letters, The Connecticut Review, Nimrod, Seattle Review and Meridian's Best New Poets 2007. A native Scot, he lives in Chapel Hill, NC.