The Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Stephen Ratcliffe

Thursday, October 2, 2014, 4:30 pm
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Stephen Ratcliffe, winner of The Poetry Center Book Award for 2014, reads from Selected Days (Counterpath Press, 2012). "Like a core sample drilled down through the days, these 'Selected Days' come up with layered and differentiated strata in evidence of time perceived as phenomenally present on the poet/reader's eye, ear and persistent body moved to work, steadily and across an extensive sweep of one person's human time," the competition’s anonymous judge stated. Free.
Location: 
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
Sponsor: 
The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
Contact: 
The Poetry Center
Phone: 
415-338-2227
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Ratcliffe is a poet, professor and publisher. His recent publications include Painting (Chax, 2013), CLOUD / RIDGE (BlazeVox [books], 2011), Conversation (Bootstrap Press/Plein Air Editions, 2011), HUMAN / NATURE, Remarks on Color / Sound, Temporality (Eclipse, 2011); Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath, 2010). He teaches at Mills College and lives in Bolinas. The Poetry Center Book Award has been presented annually since 1980 by The Poetry Center to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year. The Poetry Center Book Award carries a cash prize and an invitation to read, along with the award judge, at The Poetry Center.