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Reading at the Four-Faced Liar

Mar.17.2010

On Sunday, April 18, at 2:30 PM, the Frequency Series at the Four-Faced Liar will host poet Sandra Beasley as she reads from I WAS THE JUKEBOX, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize (selected by Joy Harjo) and published by W. W. Norton. She will be joined by poet Dora Malech, author of SHORE ORDERED OCEAN, published by Waywiser Press.

Four-Faced Liar is at 165 West 4th Street. The Frequency Series, hosted by Shafer Hall and Sam Amadon, is free and open to the public.

Sandra's Latest Blogs

Mar.30.2010 - 8:32 am
Let's talk about community. Let's talk about generosity. In mid-March, I sent out my biannual "news" note, an email of updates that goes out to about 450 folks hand-...
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Mar.24.2010 - 12:34 pm
In I Was the Jukebox, I set out with the goal of writing away from the biographical self. These poems speak as sand, as orchids, as Egyptian gods. In “You Were You,” which yields...
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Mar.17.2010 - 5:15 pm
[This essay was written in March 2009, over at my blog Chicks Dig Poetry, at the urging of fellow Red-Roomer Amy King, and in response to David Orr's essay "The Great(ness)...
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Comments from Sandra

Mar.21.2010 - 7:55 am
In response to: A Quick Brush of Wings
This is a beautiful essay, Ariel. As someone who has been to many an AWP conference where my idols were just...there...

Published Reviews

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Jun.25.2010
Published by The Rumpus
Readers of energetic, ornate, and enthused poetry—step forward. I’ve got your woman. Sandra Beasley’s newest collection of poems, I Was The Jukebox, can best be described as...