ICE Announcements

Event: Kress Project Book Release
Sunday, June 23 at 2 PM
Georgia Museum of Art

Music by Charlie Hartness and performances by other Kress Project winners. Copies of the book will be for sale in the Museum Shop. Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, will lead a tour of the Kress Collection.

Reading: Poetry for Educators Collective
Thursday, June 13 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and co-presented with students in LLED 8045 Advanced Poetry for Creative Educators Course participants.

Cahnmann-Taylor is professor in the department of language and literacy education at UGA, where she teaches creative writing and creative “being” courses for teachers and our friends. She has published two books regarding the use of theatre, poetry and the visual arts in education research and practice. Her prize-winning poetry has been recognized by the top prize in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, the Leeway Foundation and the Waging Peace Poetry Prize. Her poems appear widely in national literary magazines such as APR, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Barrow Street, Mom Egg and Bellevue Literary Review, as well as in a chapbook of poems titled, Reverse the Charges. She is a 2013-14 Fulbright Scholar to Oaxaca, Mexico, joined by her husband and two children.

Reading: Rebecca Baggett and Tamara Madison
Wednesday, June 12 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor.

Rebecca Baggett was born in Wilmington, N.C. She is the author of Still Life with Children (Pudding House, 1996), winner of the 1995 Looking Glass Competition, and Rebecca Baggett: Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2001). Her full-length manuscript, Tree, Salt, Sea, has been a finalist or semi-finalist in several recent first-book competitions. Her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including New England Review, North American Review, Ms. Magazine, Utne Reader, Poetry East and Atlanta Review. She works as an academic advisor for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA.

Tamara J. Madison is a writer, poet and performer currently living in Atlanta. Her creative and critical works have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including: Poetry International, Tidal Basin Review, aaduna and Web Del Sol Review of Books. She has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Hudson County Community College in New Jersey.

Reading: Jericho Brown
Tuesday, June 11 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor.

Jericho Brown was a teaching fellow in the English department at the University of Houston from 2002-2007 and a visiting professor at San Diego State University’s M.F.A. Program in spring 2009. He has also taught at numerous conferences and workshops including the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. He currently teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego.

His first collection of poetry, Please (New Issues, 2008), won the 2009 American Book Award. Brown’s poems are living on the page, and they give the reader that much: a sense of having been alive fully, if only for a duration of 75 pages of this volume. Brown is the recipient of a 2009-2010 Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a Whiting Writer’s Award. He was a finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award and Paterson Poetry Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has also received two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland.

Reading: Laura Newbern
Monday, June 10 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor.

Laura Newbern, an associate professor of English/creative writing at Georgia College & State University, teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops, poetics and other creative writing and literature courses. Laura is also the poetry editor of Arts & Letters, a biannual journal of creative writing published by Georgia College. Laura arrived at GCSU in 2005, after teaching at UGA. Her areas of interest include poetics, 20th century American poetry, and 20th century French poetry.

Reading: Stephen Corey and Jenny Gropp Hess
Friday, June 7 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor.

Stephen Corey joined the staff of The Georgia Review in 1983 as assistant editor and subsequently has served as associate editor, acting editor and, since 2008, editor. He has published nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003). His individual poems, essays and reviews have appeared in dozens of periodicals, and he has co-edited three books in as many genres, including Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001). Over the past 25 years he has served as poet-in-residence or visiting poet/editor for numerous writing programs, conferences and other literary gatherings, and currently he is editor-in-residence for the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Jenny Gropp Hess, the former editor of Black Warrior Review, joined The Georgia Review staff as managing editor in the summer of 2012. At The Georgia Review, she oversees production of the journal and participates in editorial planning and decision-making. She reads manuscripts, works closely with authors in editing all accepted work, directs art selection and edits the website. In addition to her editorial pursuits she has taught creative writing at the university and high school levels, worked in academic administration and enjoyed extensive travel and work abroad. Her poetry and prose can be found in or is forthcoming from Colorado Review,Seneca Review, Best New Poets 2012, American Letters & Commentary, Seattle Review, Denver Quarterly, Unsaid Magazine, DIAGRAM and Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, among others.

Reading: Judith Ortiz Cofer
Thursday, June 6 at 7 PM
The Globe
199 North Lumpkin Street

Part of the Seat in the Shade: A Summer Poetry Readings Series. Hosted by Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor.

Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of If I Could Fly (2011), Animal Jamboree: Latino Folktales (2012), The Poet Upstairs (2012), ¡A Bailar! (2011), Call Me Maria (2006), A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems (2005), The Meaning of Consuelo (2003), Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000), An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995), The Line of the Sun (1989), Silent Dancing (1990), Terms of Survival (1987), Reaching for the Mainland (1987), and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993).

Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Glamour, and other journals. Her work has been included in numerous textbooks and anthologies including: Best American Essays 1991, The Norton Book of Women’s Lives, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, The Pushcart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Cofer is currently the Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at UGA. In 2010 she was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

Screening: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
Thursday, June 6 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present a film series on “Art and Intrigue” on Thursdays at 7 PM between May 23 and June 6. The three films focus on mystery, conspiracy and theft in the art world. All films will screen in the museum’s M. Smith Griffith Auditorium and are free and open to the public.

“Exit Through the Gift Shop.” (2010, 87 minutes). Chronicles the underground world of street art. Takes a twist when introduced to elusive stencil artist Banksy, who turns the project around to film filmmaker Thierry Guetta while he reinvents himself as a street artist.

Screening: “Stolen”
Thursday, May 30 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present a film series on “Art and Intrigue” on Thursdays at 7 PM between May 23 and June 6. The three films focus on mystery, conspiracy and theft in the art world. All films will screen in the museum’s M. Smith Griffith Auditorium and are free and open to the public.

The documentary “Stolen” will be screened May 30. It covers the infamous 1990 break-in and theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Thirteen of the most valuable works of art, including Jan Vermeer’s “The Concert,” were stolen in a crime that remains unsolved. The FBI continues to investigate the heist, and the Gardner has offered a reward of up to $5 million for information.

Lecture: Ambassador James A. Joseph
Thursday, May 16 at 4 PM
Chapel

James A. Joseph, U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 1995 to 1999, will speak at the UGA Chapel May 16 in a special installment of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative. The event is in partnership with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, which has organized the ambassador’s visit to UGA. Joseph’s talk is entitled “Leadership as a Way of Being: Reflections on Nelson Mandela, Servant Leadership and Personal Renewal.”

Joseph has served in the administrations of four U.S. Presidents. He was the only holder of the office of U.S. Ambassador to South Africa to present his credentials to President Nelson Mandela. In 1999, President Thabo Mbeki awarded Joseph the Order of Good Hope, the highest honor the Republic of South Africa bestows on a citizen of another country. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke University and executive director of the United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke and the University of Cape Town.