April 6, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Hooper and Taylor
Please join us on April 6 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our third event in the Spring Reading Series with authors Patricia Hooper and Keith Taylor.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Patricia Hooper is the author of five poetry books: Other Lives, At the Corner of the Eye, Aristotle’s Garden, Separate Flights, and Wild Persistence. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, and other magazines. She is also the author of four children’s books. Her books have received the Norma Farber First Book Award, the Bluestem Award for Poetry, The Anita Claire Sharf Award from Tampa University Press, the 2016 Roanoke Chowan Award for Poetry from North Carolina Literary and Historical Society, and the 2019 Brockman Campbell Book Award. Other awards include the Laurence Goldstein Award from Michigan Quarterly Review. A native of Saginaw, she graduated from Arthur Hill High School and the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood Awards and met Theodore Roethke at a Hopwood ceremony. She now lives in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Keith Taylor is originally from Western Canada but has lived for the past 45 years in Michigan. He has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks. His most recent are Let Them Be Left (Alice Greene & Co., 2021) and Ecstatic Destinations (Alice Greene & Co., 2018). His last full-length collection, The Bird-while (Wayne State University Press, 2017), won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. His poems, stories, reviews, essays, and translations have appeared widely in North America and Europe. More than two years ago, he retired from the University of Michigan, where he taught Creative Writing for 20 years. Before that, he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor for almost 20 years, but over the years, he has also worked as a campboy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. Taylor has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He has been a Writer/Artist In Residence at Isle Royale National Park (twice), the Detroit YMCA, The International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre of Rhodes, Greece, the University of Michigan Biological Station, and Greenhills School.
Please join us on April 6 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our third event in the Spring Reading Series with authors Patricia Hooper and Keith Taylor.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Patricia Hooper is the author of five poetry books: Other Lives, At the Corner of the Eye, Aristotle’s Garden, Separate Flights, and Wild Persistence. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, and other magazines. She is also the author of four children’s books. Her books have received the Norma Farber First Book Award, the Bluestem Award for Poetry, The Anita Claire Sharf Award from Tampa University Press, the 2016 Roanoke Chowan Award for Poetry from North Carolina Literary and Historical Society, and the 2019 Brockman Campbell Book Award. Other awards include the Laurence Goldstein Award from Michigan Quarterly Review. A native of Saginaw, she graduated from Arthur Hill High School and the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood Awards and met Theodore Roethke at a Hopwood ceremony. She now lives in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Keith Taylor is originally from Western Canada but has lived for the past 45 years in Michigan. He has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks. His most recent are Let Them Be Left (Alice Greene & Co., 2021) and Ecstatic Destinations (Alice Greene & Co., 2018). His last full-length collection, The Bird-while (Wayne State University Press, 2017), won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. His poems, stories, reviews, essays, and translations have appeared widely in North America and Europe. More than two years ago, he retired from the University of Michigan, where he taught Creative Writing for 20 years. Before that, he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor for almost 20 years, but over the years, he has also worked as a campboy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. Taylor has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He has been a Writer/Artist In Residence at Isle Royale National Park (twice), the Detroit YMCA, The International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre of Rhodes, Greece, the University of Michigan Biological Station, and Greenhills School.
Please join us on April 6 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our third event in the Spring Reading Series with authors Patricia Hooper and Keith Taylor.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Patricia Hooper is the author of five poetry books: Other Lives, At the Corner of the Eye, Aristotle’s Garden, Separate Flights, and Wild Persistence. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, and other magazines. She is also the author of four children’s books. Her books have received the Norma Farber First Book Award, the Bluestem Award for Poetry, The Anita Claire Sharf Award from Tampa University Press, the 2016 Roanoke Chowan Award for Poetry from North Carolina Literary and Historical Society, and the 2019 Brockman Campbell Book Award. Other awards include the Laurence Goldstein Award from Michigan Quarterly Review. A native of Saginaw, she graduated from Arthur Hill High School and the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood Awards and met Theodore Roethke at a Hopwood ceremony. She now lives in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Keith Taylor is originally from Western Canada but has lived for the past 45 years in Michigan. He has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks. His most recent are Let Them Be Left (Alice Greene & Co., 2021) and Ecstatic Destinations (Alice Greene & Co., 2018). His last full-length collection, The Bird-while (Wayne State University Press, 2017), won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. His poems, stories, reviews, essays, and translations have appeared widely in North America and Europe. More than two years ago, he retired from the University of Michigan, where he taught Creative Writing for 20 years. Before that, he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor for almost 20 years, but over the years, he has also worked as a campboy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. Taylor has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He has been a Writer/Artist In Residence at Isle Royale National Park (twice), the Detroit YMCA, The International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre of Rhodes, Greece, the University of Michigan Biological Station, and Greenhills School.
