Patricia Clark: O LUCKY DAY &Karen Fish: NO CHRONOLOGY, with James Magruder

In honor of National Poetry Month, poets Patricia Clark and Karen Fish join us for a reading and conversation on the patio, moderated by James Magruder. Patricia's new book, O LUCKY DAY, provides us spiritual anchor and uplift, perfect for fans of Mary Oliver, and Karen Fish's most recent collection, NO CHRONOLOGY, uses her close observation honed as a visual artist to illuminate new perspectives. If you're looking for inspiration, solace, or fresh ideas through poetry, this event is for you.

Click here to order O LUCKY DAY!

Click here to order NO CHRONOLOGY!

Patricia Clark is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, The Canopy and, before that, Sunday Rising. She has also published three chapbooks: Deadlifts (New Michigan Press), Wreath for the Red Admiral and Given the Trees. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and has appeared in The Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Slate, and Stand. She was a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and has completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center (in County Monaghan (Ireland), and the Ragdale Colony. Awards for her work include a Creative Artist Grant in Michigan, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize, and co-winner of the Lucille Medwick Prize from the Poetry Society of America. From 2005-2007 she was honored to serve as the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she worked for thirty years.

Karen Fish is the author of three poetry collections, The Cedar Canoe (University of Georgia), What Is Beyond Us (Harper/Collins) and No Chronology, (University of Chicago). Fish has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and Slate.

James Magruder is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator. His adaptations of Dickens, Marivaux, Molière, Gozzi, Lesage, Labiche, Giraudoux, and Hoffmanstal have been staged across America, and in Japan, England, and Germany. His Three French Comedies was named an “Outstanding Literary Translation” by the American Literary Translators Association. He has published four books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me See It, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, and Vamp Until Ready), and written the books for two Broadway musicals (Triumph of Love and Head Over Heels, the blank verse mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and the song catalog of the Go-Go’s. His first--and last--book of nonfiction, The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theater (1966-2016), was published three months ago by Yale University Press.

Host or Publisher The Ivy Bookshop