April Poetry Series: Hayden Saunier and Allen Hoey

Apr 16 2010 7:00 pm
Apr 16 2010 9:00 pm

 

Come celebrate National Poetry month by hearing Hayden Saunier and Allen Hoey, two of Bucks County's most esteemed poets, read from their collections.

 Hayden Saunier is the 2005 winner of the Robert Fraser Poetry Award, a Bucks County Poet Laureate and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her debut collection of poems, Tips For Domestic Travel, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award. Visit the author's website for more info.

Dr. Allen Hoey, a former Bucks County Poet Laureate and now the Director of the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program, has released seven books of poetry in the last decade, the most recent of which is Country Music, a collection that sees the author meditating and balancing between the North County in New York State and an old farm here in Bucks County. Visit the author's website for more info.

 


Tips for Domestic Travel (Paperback)

By Hayden Saunier
$12.60
ISBN-13: 9781934703816
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Black Lawrence Press, 9/2009
In the title poem of Tips for Domestic Travel, Hayden Saunier tells us:

If you walk up, weeping, to an airline counter
one hour before flight and three days after
elevated warnings of terrorist attacks,
you should expect the body search
of a lifetime, even if you aren’t wearing
an underwire bra...

That is where we begin. Saunier takes us home where we use a bandsaw to do battle with a Smithfield ham, prepare for a road trip to an unknown sea town where a dearly beloved will nurse a tumor, and where death patiently reads The New York Times. Tips for Domestic Travel is an elegy, but it’s also a guide for navigating the domestic lands of the childhood home, the body, and the objects that remain.

Country Music (Paperback)

By Allen Hoey
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781934999059
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Wordtech Communications, 4/2008
The poems in Country Music, Hoey's most recent collection represent a shift in Hoey's direction, with a return to a more colloquial edge. These poems, many of which concern life in the North Country of New York State, are balanced against poems that draw on the more compressed tradition of Chinese poetry. These are set on an old farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where his cottage overlooks a pond and includes a view of the local landmark, Bowman's Hill. The publisher comments, "In Allen Hoey's Country Music, the poet explores the music of country and the country of music; Hoey's deft narratives and spare lyrics weave a subtle and engaging song."
Location: 
,
»