Observable Readings
Observable Readings Closes 2009-2010 Season with Three Distinguished Poets on Thursday, May 6, at the Schlafly Bottleworks
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 09:13 PM
Dora Malech was born in New Haven, CT, grew up in Bethesda, MD, and received a BA in art from Yale, and an MFA in poetry from The Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, most notably the Anthony Hecht Prize in Poetry from The Waywiser Press, which published her book Shore Ordered Ocean in 2009. Her second volume, Say So, was a finalist in the Open Competition of the Cleveland State Poetry Center, which will publish the book in fall 2010. She is a teaching fellow at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. To read poems by Dora Malech, click here. 
San Franciscan Randall Mann was the winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry. His first book, Complaint in the Garden, appeared in 2004 from the late and lamented Orchises Press of Fairfax, VA. He is a co-author of the poetry writing textbook titled Writing Poems (2007). Mann's second collection of poems, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, appeared from The University of Chicago Press in 2009. Click here to read a poem of his titled Last Call.
Born in St. Antonio, TX, and raised in, among other places, Stuttgart, Germany; Andrew Joron wrote science fiction for a decade before turning his attention to other forms of lyric speculation. He is the author of Removes (1999), and Fathom (2003) as well as a collection of lyric and philosophical essays titled The Cry at Zero (2007). Flood Editions brought out The Sound Mirror, his most recent collection of poems, in 2008. He also is the editor and translator of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch. To read some of his poems, click here.
Dora Malech was born in New Haven, CT, grew up in Bethesda, MD, and received a BA in art from Yale, and an MFA in poetry from The Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, most notably the Anthony Hecht Prize in Poetry from The Waywiser Press, which published her book Shore Ordered Ocean in 2009. Her second volume, Say So, was a finalist in the Open Competition of the Cleveland State Poetry Center, which will publish the book in fall 2010. She is a teaching fellow at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. To read poems by Dora Malech, click here.
San Franciscan Randall Mann was the winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry. His first book, Complaint in the Garden, appeared in 2004 from the late and lamented Orchises Press of Fairfax, VA. He is a co-author of the poetry writing textbook titled Writing Poems (2007). Mann's second collection of poems, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, appeared from The University of Chicago Press in 2009. Click here to read a poem of his titled Last Call.
Born in St. Antonio, TX, and raised in, among other places, Stuttgart, Germany; Andrew Joron wrote science fiction for a decade before turning his attention to other forms of lyric speculation. He is the author of Removes (1999), and Fathom (2003) as well as a collection of lyric and philosophical essays titled The Cry at Zero (2007). Flood Editions brought out The Sound Mirror, his most recent collection of poems, in 2008. He also is the editor and translator of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch. To read some of his poems, click here.