{"273111":{"#nid":"273111","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Poetry at Tech: McEver Poetry Reading","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPoetry at Tech presents the McEver Poetry Reading, featuring poets\u0026nbsp;Sandra Meek, Bruce McEver, and Rupert Fike\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFree and Open to the Public; n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eo Tickets or Reservations Required\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the poets:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESandra Meek is the author of four books of poems, \u003Cem\u003ERoad Scatter\u003C\/em\u003E (Persea Books, 2012), Biogeography, winner of the \u003Cem\u003EDorset Prize\u003C\/em\u003E (Tupelo Press, 2008), \u003Cem\u003EBurn\u003C\/em\u003E (2005), and \u003Cem\u003ENomadic Foundations\u003C\/em\u003E (2002), as well as a chapbook, \u003Cem\u003EThe Circumference of Arrival\u003C\/em\u003E (2001). She is also the editor of an anthology, \u003Cem\u003EDeep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad\u003C\/em\u003E (Ninebark 2007), which was awarded a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal.Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Conjunctions, and The Iowa Review, among others. She has twice been awarded Georgia Author of the Year, in 2006 for Burn, and in 2003 for Nomadic Foundations, which also was awarded the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry. She is a co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College in Georgia, USA.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERupert Fike\u0027s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;collection, \u003Cem\u003ELotus Buffet\u003C\/em\u003E (Brick Road Poetry Press) was named Finalist in the 2011 Georgia Author of the Year Awards. He has been nominated for Pushcart prizes in fiction and poetry with work appearing in The Southern Review of Poetry, Rosebud, Natural Bridge, The Georgetown Review and others. He has a poem inscribed in a downtown Atlanta plaza, and his non-fiction book, \u003Cem\u003EVoices from the Farm\u003C\/em\u003E, is now in its second printing with accounts of life on a spiritual community in the 1970s.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBruce McEver\u003C\/strong\u003E started writing in workshops in New York City with Hugh Seidman, Pearl London, Katha Pollitt, Brooks Haxton, David Lehman, and J.D. McClatchy. He has taken writing seminars at Sarah Lawrence College with Thomas Lux and Kevin Pilkington and, most recently, was a summer residency student at the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where he worked with Stephen Dobyns. His poems have appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPloughshares\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWestview\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Berkshire Review\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Cortland Review, The Connecticut River Review, The Chattahoochee Review,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Review\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E. He works in New York City and lives in Salisbury, Connecticut.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPoetry at Tech presents the annual McEver Poetry Reading, featuring poets\u0026nbsp;Sandra Meek, Bruce McEver, and Rupert Fike\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"McEver Poetry Reading by Poetry at Tech"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2014-02-03 16:54:42","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:16","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-02-06T18:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-02-06T20:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-02-06T20:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-02-06 23:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-02-07 01:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-02-07 01:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ipst.gatech.edu\/amp\/","title":"Robert C. 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