De Young Poetry Series With Rae Armantrout And Gillian Conoley

Renowned poets Rae Armantrout and Gillian Conoley will read their poetry as part of the de Young Poetry Series.
Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, and studied at San Francisco State University and U.C. Berkeley. She now lives in San Diego, where she is a professor of poetry and poetics at U.C. San Diego. Described as the most lyrical of the language poets, she has been widely honored for the clarity and sophistication of her work. Her most recent books, all from Wesleyan University Press, are Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001); Up to Speed (2004); Next Life (2007); and Versed (2009). Her works appears frequently in the New Yorker.
Born in Austin, Texas, in 1955, Gillian Conoley has published seven poetry books, including The Plot Genie (2009); Profane Halo (2005); Lovers in the Used World (2001); Beckon (1996); and Tall Stranger (1991), a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Widely admired and anthologized, she has received several Pushcart awards and the distinguished Jerome J. Shestack Award for the best poetry to appear in the American Poetry Review. Founder and editor of the admired poetry journal Volt, she is professor and poet-in-residence at Sonoma State University.