Afternoon Poetry Series: Ralph Angel
Tuesday, October 18th @ 4 pm
The 11th Street Café
65 West 11th Street
Wine reception and book signing to follow
Ralph Angel is the author of three collections of poetry: Twice Removed (Sarabande Books, 2001), Neither World which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, and Anxious Latitudes. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The American Poetry Review and many other magazines, and have been collected in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Body Electric, Poets of the New Century, New American Poets of the '90s and Forgotten Language. His most recent honors include a Pushcart Prize and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and Poetry magazine. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Endowed Chair in English at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, Mr. Angel now lives in Los Angeles.
"Just as Richard Diebenkorn defined Los Angeles for me in his paintings, so too has Ralph Angel defined that city in his remarkable poetry. And I am amazed by the timeless and universal quality of his work. He brings something ancient and compelling--from Andalusia through Rhodes and Constantinople, through the Pacific Northwest--that we recognize as a kind of rare Sepharddic wisdom, a brilliance traveling at the speed of Los Angeles light. He is one of America's very best poets. A true visionary."
-Tomaz Salamun
The 11th Street Café
65 West 11th Street
Wine reception and book signing to follow
Ralph Angel is the author of three collections of poetry: Twice Removed (Sarabande Books, 2001), Neither World which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, and Anxious Latitudes. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The American Poetry Review and many other magazines, and have been collected in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Body Electric, Poets of the New Century, New American Poets of the '90s and Forgotten Language. His most recent honors include a Pushcart Prize and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and Poetry magazine. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Endowed Chair in English at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, Mr. Angel now lives in Los Angeles.
"Just as Richard Diebenkorn defined Los Angeles for me in his paintings, so too has Ralph Angel defined that city in his remarkable poetry. And I am amazed by the timeless and universal quality of his work. He brings something ancient and compelling--from Andalusia through Rhodes and Constantinople, through the Pacific Northwest--that we recognize as a kind of rare Sepharddic wisdom, a brilliance traveling at the speed of Los Angeles light. He is one of America's very best poets. A true visionary."
-Tomaz Salamun
