Hammer Readings: Festival of California Poets September 22, 2008

HAMMER Readings
Festival of California Poets

The 2nd Annual PSA Festival of California Poets
To conclude the Poetry Society of America’s festival, celebrated Los Angeles-area poets Ralph Angel (winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry for Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986–2006), Wanda Coleman (winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Mercurochrome), Maggie Nelson (author of Something Bright, Then Holes and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award finalist Jane: A Murder), and Charles Harper Webb (winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize and a Whiting Writers Award) read from their work. For more information on the festival, go to www.poetrysociety.org.

Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America, PEN Center USA, and UCLA.
All Hammer public programs are free. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVP's not required.

Official Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/1/