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Jim Cihlar Poet

Presented by Heart River Writers' Circle at Beck Auditorium at Dickinson State University

October 11, 2011

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James Cihlar will be reading from his book of poetry, Undoing.


From the poem “The House Made of Words” by James Cihlar: "If I could take the moment by the throat,/ I would pin it down to paper. / Someone’s got to do it, / Set the words in order."



James Cihlar is the author of the poetry book Undoing (Little Pear Press, 2008) and chapbook Metaphysical Bailout (Pudding House Press, 2010), and he has placed his writing with American Poetry Review, The Awl, Cold Mountain Review, Court Green, Prairie Schooner, Mary, Rhino, Painted Bride Quarterly, Emprise Review, Verse Daily, Washington Square Review, and Forklift, Ohio. His reviews appear in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Western American Literature, Coldfront, and Gently Read Literature. He is the Book Reviews Editor for American Poetry Journal and the Fiction/Nonfiction Editor for Etruscan Press. The recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, Cihlar is a Lecturer at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a Visiting Professor at Macalester College in St. Paul. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he earned his B.A. in English from the University of Iowa, where he studied in the Writers Workshop, and earned his M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.


 

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    Beck Auditorium at Dickinson State University

    291 Campus Drive
    Dickinson, ND 58601

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    October 11, 2011

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    7 PM

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