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Lycoming English professor Sascha Feinstein to present workshop and poetry reading at Bloomsburg University Feb. 26 |
 Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English at Lycoming College, will present a workshop and poetry reading at Bloomsburg University's Schweiker Room in the Andruss Library on Tuesday, Feb. 26. The workshop, "Jazz Poems in Form," will be held at 2 p.m. while the poetry reading, "East Meets West: Poems of Travel," will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feinstein is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at the College. He is also the editor of "Brilliant Corners," the only national literary journal dedicated to jazz-related literature. Feinstein’s poetry collection, "Misterioso" (2000), won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, and individual poems have appeared in publications such as "American Poetry Review," "North American Review," "Georgia Review," and "The Penguin Book of the Sonnet." He is the author of two related critical books—"Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present" (1997) and "A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry" (1998)—and his essays have appeared in publications such as "The Southern Review," "African American Review," "The Chronicle of Higher Education," and "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz." With Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he co-edited "The Jazz Poetry Anthology" (1991) and its companion volume "The Second Set" (1996). Feinstein's most recent book, "Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature" (Indiana University Press), is a compilation of interviews on jazz and literature with some of America’s most important artists and writers from Feinstein's biannual publication "Brilliant Corners." The World Wide Word Radio Network She will be talking to SASCHA FEINSTEIN
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