Winter is nearly here, and all around us the woods are decaying and falling, the vapors weeping their burthens to the ground, as the poet said. If you've got the holiday blues you're looking for an unusual pick-me-up, you might want to try the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona this afternoon.
The dA Center is having a free reception and awards ceremony at 2pm today for the finalists and winner of the dA's 2008 Poetry Prize. Besides the awards, there will be a reading, followed at 3:15pm by an open mic event.
The event is free, but there's a $6 donation to read during the open mic, and you should sign up at 1:45pm if you want to participate.
According to the dA's website, the winner of this year's event is Mark Conway for his poetry collection Any Holy City. The runners-up were Candace Pearson and Kathleen Tyler.
The dA has this write up for Conway's award:
Winner: Mark Conway's book of poetry, Any Holy City, won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year's PEN/ Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He's poetry editor of Post Road and lives in Avon, Minnesota.
The dA award is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc., through a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.
2008 dA Center for the Arts Poetry Prize - 2pm
da Center for the Arts
252-D S. Main St.
Pomona, CA
(909) 397-9716
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