Observable Readings

Poets Michele Glazer, John Estes and Devin Johnston Headline October 8th Observable Reading

Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 07:59 PM: Michele Glazer, John Estes and Devin Johnston

Michele Glazer is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University and director of  its MFA creative writing program. She is the author of Aggregate of Disturbances, which received the Iowa Poetry Prize; and It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See, which received an AWP Award in Poetry.  A new collection,  On Tact,    & the Made Up World, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2010.

John Estes is a graduate teaching assistant in the English department at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the poetry editor for Center, A Journal of the Literary Arts.  He has two chapbooks of poetry titled Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoon and Swerve, which was chosen by poet C. K. Williams for the 2008 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America.

Devin Johnston is an associate professor of English at St. Louis University and the author of three collections of poetry: Telepathy, Aversions, and Sources, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry in 2008. He also has written a book of criticism titled Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice.