‘Style Sheets: New Works by Margery Amdur’ To Open Wednesday at Edinboro University’s Bruce Gallery

Edinboro University’s Bruce Gallery will host an opening reception for the art exhibition, “Style Sheets: New Works by Margery Amdur,” on Wednesday, March 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Doucette Hall.

Amdur’s work, a mix of painting, drawing and sculpture, is created using layers of paint, beeswax, photo transfers and acrylic resin. She will also present two drawing/painting installation works made from differentiated layers of hand-cut acetate and frosted Mylar.

Amdur is currently the Chair of Painting and Drawing in the Fine Art Department at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. In recent years her work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibits in Turkey, Poland, Nicaragua, Hungary, England, and New York. She is the recipient of more than a dozen awards and grants, and has been featured in several art magazines and publications.

Bruce Gallery is located on the ground floor of Edinboro’s Doucette Hall. Gallery hours are from noon to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

The reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, call the Bruce Gallery at 732-2513 or the Edinboro University Art Department at 732-2406.

Zip a Dee Doo Dah

By Karen Beardsley-Petit

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT?

With only 250 tickets remaining, don't wait to reserve your seats for The Magical Music of Disney on March 26 at 8 PM at the Warner Theatre. The performance features some of your favorite Disney movie music along with memorable visual images.  You'll hear music from Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and more. You can meet Disney "princesses" in the lobby before the concert and during intermission.  The Erie Jr. Philharmonic will also perform.

Order your tickets today as a sell-out crowd is expected. 

This Hanes Erie Pops Concert is presented by Printing Concepts, Nautilus Fitness and Racquet Club, YourErie.com and Classy 100.  The 2010-2011 Season is sponsored by Scott Enterprises.    

SAVE YOUR SEAT FOR NEXT SEASON

The Box Office is currently processing subscription renewals and new orders for the exciting 2011-2012 season.  Subscribers:  Renew by April 16 and receive the Early Bird Discount!  If you're a FIRST TIME SUBSCRIBER, you can receive a free subscription with the purchase of one.  You can subscribe to the entire season, the Symphonic Series or the Pops Series. 

Your subscription offers you a discount off single ticket prices.  As a subscriber you will have the flexibility to exchange your seats, if you can't make one of the concerts and you are always guaranteed a seat!!  Renew/subscribe here.

Left:  Guitarist Ana Vidovic, one of next season's guest artists, will perform in November with the Erie Phil.

DINE, DANCE & TAKE A CHANCE

If you don't plan on attending the Royal Wedding on April 29, plan to attend our spring fundraiser Dine, Dance & Take a Chance! The fun starts at 7 PM at the Bel-Aire Hotel and Conference Center. 

Committee chairs Darlene Lay and Peggy Schwab along with the rest of the hard-working committee have arranged a wonderful evening to benefit the Erie Phil. For just $75 you can enjoy a sophisticated casino evening complete with gaming tables, sumptuous food stations and music by the Matt Kramer Trio. Some of the fantastic prizes include a trip to Paradise Island in Florida, a Seawolves VIP Box package, foursome golf outings, gift cards and entertainment packages and much more. For more information visit our website or contact Danielle Demeter at 455-1375 ext. 10.

WEIGHING IN AT NEARLY 1,000 POUNDS

Thank you to all who donated food for our Orchestras Feeding America food drive earlier this month.  The donated items have been weighed by Second Harvest Food Bank and we collected 957 pounds of food!  Thank you to our partner organizations who served as drop-off locations and who offered extra perks to donors: Erie Art Museum, Erie Downtown Arts and Culture Coalition (EDA&CC), Erie Jr. Philharmonic, Erie Philharmonic Chorus, Erie Playhouse, Eriez Magnetics, expERIEnce Children's Museum, Lake Erie Ballet, Plymouth Tavern, WQLN, and Young Erie Professionals.

For more information about the food drive, check out this report from Gerry Weiss of the Erie Times.

GET CONNECTED!

There are many ways you can stay connected to your Erie Phil in between performances at the Warner.  You can:

         Like us on Facebook

         Follow us on Twitter

         Read our blog:  hear what our Concertmaster (pictured left) has to say and other bloggers, too.

Tune in to The Amazing Grays on Time Warner Cable Channel 2 on March 21 and 23 to catch an interview with Concertmaster Ken Johnston.  Shows are a half-hour long and air at 10:30 AM, 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM.   

 In addition, we'll host a Happy Hour at the Erie Club on Thursday, April 7 at 5 PM.  Our Mix It Up With Musicians event is open to non-members and will feature drink specials and plenty of fun.    

NEW THREADS

If you saw the Erie Philharmonic Chorus perform Brahms' German Requiem earlier this month, you may have noticed that the women were in matching, elegant attire.  Thanks to the chorus's wardrobe committee who was responsible for the selection of the new, black skirt suits the women both sounded great and looked marvelous.  Pictured at left are committee members:  Top row, left to right, Rebecca Jubilis and Karen Carpenedo.  Front row, left to right, Mary Larson (chair) and Nancy Rusnak.

The Erie Phil Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Jason Bishop, will perform again in our May 20 Pops season finale, American Heroes: A Salute to Our Armed Forces.

PARTY ON

Win a party with the Maestro and 50 of your friends! For just $10, you can purchase a ticket for this event to be held at The Ambassador on June 16. Buy a ticket from an Erie Phil board member, our office at 609 Walnut Street, or at any Philharmonic concert through May 20. 

Also, you can win an INSTANT WINE CELLAR! A $5 raffle ticket buys you the chance to win the grand prize of 50 bottles of wine! Tickets can be purchased from a board member or at the Erie Phil office.  The drawing will take place during Dine, Dance & Take a Chance on April 29.

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

                                               WHY WE ADVOCATE FOR THE ARTS

Each of us has our own personal story for why we advocate for the arts and with the potential cuts to the NEA that would have an over $1 million impact on the Erie Region, it is an important time to tell others why we advocate.

This week our Blog features our Concertmaster and various staff members, who once were musicians, writing on how music made a dramatic impact on their lives. Personally, I advocate for the arts for many reasons. Yes, I know that the non-profit arts industry generates $166.2 billion annually in economic activity, the fifth largest industry in the United States, and employs twice as many people as the American auto industry… and I tell politicians this often and loudly.... but I do not advocate because of those who choose to not understand. I advocate because I share a bond with the 5.7 million people who work in the arts and who, I am positive, have devoted their lives to the arts for many of the reasons I have. I work to serve the community, to reach new audiences, to serve the underprivileged, to educate, to help heighten an art form, to bring joy and excitement.

Please, in a time when arts funding is being cut left and right, tell many why you advocate for the arts.

Thank you for advocating,

Audrey Szychulski

TAKE NOTE

MAR 23 Erie Phil on the Move, Cole Auditorium, EUP, 7:30 PM

MAR 26 The Magical Music of Disney Pops Concert, Warner Theatre, 8 PM

APR 7    Mix It Up With Musicians Cocktail Event, Erie Club, 5 PM

APR 9    The Machine Pink Floyd Tribute Featuring Erie Phil, Warner Theatre, 8 PM

APR 13  Maestro Daniel Meyer on WQLN Radio, 11 AM

APR 15  Pianist Di Wu, Lobby Performance at WQLN, Noon

APR 16  Red, Hot and Gershwin Symphonic Concert, Warner Theatre, 8 PM

APR 29  Dine, Dance & Take a Chance, Bel-Aire Hotel, 7 PM

              Instant Wine Cellar Raffle

MAY 1    Erie Jr. Phil Spring Concert, Cole Auditorium, EUP, 7:30 PM

May 5     Erie Jr. Phil Spring Ensembles Concert, Blasco Library, 7 PM

MAY 20  American Heroes: A Salute to Our Armed Forces Pops Concert, Warner Theatre, 8 PM

               Party With the Maestro Raffle

Musicians Announced For  “There Are No Goodbyes” Film Soundtrack

In September Lyons Den Productions announced a submission contest for Erie Pennsylvania-area bands and musicians, both past and present, for the soundtrack of their upcoming feature film “There Are No Goodbyes“. During the three-month submission window over 200 compositions were received from over 50 artists. Using Erie as a backdrop for the story, the filmmakers saw an opportunity to showcase aspects of the city that might get unnoticed or unrecognized. Submissions were accepted from all genres.

Andy Flatley, a longtime Lyons Den Productions collaborator, is producing the soundtrack and scoring the film. Of the contest he said “Erie is a diverse place and as such it has quite a diverse musical world. This is something that was shown to us very clearly through the sheer volume of music we received. It was quite an experience and we are very excited to work with these artists.” We want to congratulate the following musicians who will be joining Lumiere and Phantasm on the soundtrack:

Sossie Govna ( Hip Hop ) Andrew Todd ( Aural Wizardry ) Bill Burke ( Jazz ) Bobby J. ( Instrumental Electronic ) Deadhorse ( Post-rock ) Fly MC ( Hip Hop / Rap ) Mount Peru ( Cosmic Americana ) The Intrepid Explorers Club ( Time-traveling Troubadours ) David Peters ( Singer/ Songwriter ) Phylosophy ( Hip Hop / Rap ) Jargonauts ( Genre Defying Awesomeness ) A.D. Wondersound w/ Kacy Kubeldis ( Chanson Chanteur and Chanteuse )

In the coming months, Lyons Den Productions will be highlighting the artists selected for the soundtrack on the production blog for the film at ThereAreNoGoodbyes.com. The film and soundtrack are expected to debut in 2012.

ABOUT “THERE ARE NO GOODBYES” – “There Are No Goodbyes” is the second feature length film from the award-winning team of talent at Lyons Den Productions. The film is a story about choices and finding purpose in one’s life in the context of the current sociopolitical climate of blue-collar America. Production is expected to wrap this summer with an anticipated premiere in 2012. For more information: www.ThereAreNoGoodbyes.com

Children's Museum's Upcoming Events

By Abby Dinges

A Princess expERIEnce!!
Saturday, March 19th 10am-4pm
Princess Parades at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm
Put on you loveliest princess dress and join us at the Children's Museum for A Princess expERIEnce!
We will be celebrating the magic and excitement when little girls become royal princesses at the Museum! This special day will be filled with opportunities to:
**Meet and talk with live princesses courtesy of the Erie Playhouse
**Create artfully designed princess accessories
**Sing and dance w/ Lake Erie Ballet & Dafmark Dance Studio’s
**Pose for special photographs
**Get your Princess Hair and Nails done by a representative from Diane McShane’s Hair Salon
**Walk in the Princess Parade through the Museum

Ticket stub from the Erie Playhouse’s February 27th Princess Ball and the Erie Philharmonic’s March 26th Disney Classics concert are redeemable for BOGO admission to ECM through May 31, 2011.

ECM Members can enjoy a FREE student admission with the purchase of an adult admission to the Phil’s Disney concert on March 26th. (Note FREE promo code)
 

Toddler Story Time
Thursdays at 10:30am
Parents and children are invited for a story and hands-on activity related to a different theme each week. Story time is included with Museum admission.

March 17th – St. Patrick's Day
March 24th – It’s a Mystery #1
March 31st – It’s a Mystery #2

April 7th – Spring
April 14th – TBD
April 21st – Easter
April 28th – Frogs
 

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny
Saturdays: April 9th, 16th, and 23rd 9am-11am
(The Museum will not be open to the General Public until Noon on these dates)
Sundays: April 10th and 17th 10:30-12:30
Children and adults will be treated to a hot breakfast, a visit with the Easter Bunny, an "egg"citing egg hunt, and entertainment on the expERIence stage.
Museum Members $8; Non-Members $12; Children 1 and under FREE
Pre-registration required

RAZZMA Mini Camps
Provide children the chance to explore the world around them by getting their hands dirty with science and art related topics. Each RAZZMA consists of mini-lessons based on the theme, hands-on activities, stories and a small snack.
All RAZZMA camps are for children ages 4-10.
Classes are from 9am - 12pm.
Pre-Registration is required.
Register by calling 453-3743.
Classes are $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Class fee includes a small snack.
 

Music Mania
Saturday, April 9th 1pm-4pm
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart to name a few. Come and listen to their music, do some
creative movement to their songs, and draw pictures based on the sounds! Play with some
stimulating instruments and learn why they make the sounds that they do. You'll even make
your own instrument to take home!
 

Lego/K'nex
Wednesday, April 20th 9am-12pm
Come build and play with Legos and K'nex! See how a pulley works with the use of K'nex
and how Legos can be used to work with robots!
 

Painting like the Masters
Thursday, Arpil 21st 9am-12pm
ExpERIEnce different painting and art styles that the master artists used. Learn about the
pointillism technique used by Seruat, where a picture is made out of a collection of small dots
and use large, thick brushes to paint like van Gogh!


Pennsylvania OneBook Author Visit
Thursday, April 21 2:30pm
PA OneBook is bringing author Stephen Swinburne to the expERIEnce Children's Museum. Stephen Swinburne, author and photographer of Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job, will be visiting the Blasco Library and the Children's Museum. He will be reading some of his most popular stories and creating some entertaining theme related art activities with the children.

Battle: Los Angeles Review

By Roger Ebert

"Battle: Los Angeles" is noisy, violent, ugly and stupid. Its manufacture is a reflection of appalling cynicism on the part of its makers, who don't even try to make it more than senseless chaos. Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them. You want to cut it up to clean under your fingernails.

Meteors fall to Earth near the coasts of the world's major cities (and in Ireland's Dingle Bay — that meteor must have strayed off course). They contain alien troops, which march up from the beach with their weapons of war and attack mankind. No reason is given for this, although it's mentioned they may want our water. We meet the members of a Marine platoon, and its battle-scarred Staff Sgt. Nantz (Aaron Eckhart). They're helicoptered into Santa Monica and apparently defeat the aliens. Since all of Los Angeles is frequently seen in flames, it's not entirely clear how the Santa Monica action is crucial, but apparently it is.

The aliens are hilarious. Do they give Razzies for special effects? They seem to be animal/machine hybrids with automatic weapons growing from their arms, which must make it hard to change the baby. As the Marines use their combat knives to carve into the aliens, they find one layer after another of icky gelatinous pus-filled goo. Luckily, the other aliens are mostly seen in long shot, where they look like stick figures whipped up by apprentice animators.

Aaron Eckhart stars as Staff Sgt. Nantz, a 20-year veteran who has something shady in his record, which people keep referring to, although screenwriter Christopher Bertolini is too cagey to come right out and describe it. Never mind. Eckhart is perfectly cast, and let the word go forth that he makes one hell of a great-looking action hero. He is also a fine actor, but acting skills are not required from anyone in this movie.

The dialogue consists almost entirely of terse screams: Watch it! Incoming! Move! Look out! Fire! Move! The only characters I re­member having four sentences in a row are the anchors on cable news. Although the platoon includes the usual buffet of ethnicities, including Latinos, Asians and a Nigerian surgeon, none of them get much more than a word or two in a row, so as characters, they're all placeholders.

You gotta see the alien battleships in this movie. They seem to have been assembled by the proverbial tornado blowing through a junkyard. They're aggressively ugly and cluttered, the product of a planet where design has not been discovered and even the Coke bottles must look like pincushions. Although these ships presumably arrived inside the meteors, one in particular exhibits uncanny versatility, by rising up from the Earth before the very eyes of the startled Marines. How, you may ask, did it tunnel for 10 or 12 blocks under Santa Monica to the battle lines at Lincoln Boulevard?

There is a lazy editing style in action movies these days that assumes nothing need make any sense visually. In a good movie, we understand where the heroes are, and where their opponents are, and why, and when they fire on each other, we understand the geometry. In a mess like this, the frame is filled with flashes and explosions and shots so brief that nothing makes sense. From time to time, there'll be a closeup of Aaron Eckhart screaming something, for example, and on either side of that shot, there will be unrelated shots of incomprehensible action.

When I think of the elegant construction of something like "Gunfight at the OK Corral," I want to rend the hair from my head and weep bitter tears of despair. Generations of filmmakers devoted their lives to perfecting techniques that a director like Jonathan Liebesman is either ignorant of, or indifferent to. Yet he is given millions of dollars to produce this assault on the attention span of a generation.

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you've been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

Open Stage Night This Friday At The EAM
By Rob Taylor

One of the best forms of entertainment is, believe it or not, open mic nights. You get to see some of the best unknown artists and performers show their stuff as well veterans whose names everyone knows.

This Friday night, March 18th, 6-9pm, the Erie Art Museum is opening its doors for the second Open Stage Night of the year.

All local artists are welcome to take part whether they are singers, musicians, comedians or visual artists, they will be given the stage to show what they can do. Performers are limited to two pieces or ten minutes whichever is shorter and visual artists can bring in digital images that will be projected on a screen.

Signups are first-come-first-served and begin at 5pm in the Museum lobby.

For more information contact Kelly at 459-5477 or email: folkart@erieartmuseum.org

Sonnet Mondal Becomes the First Indian to Bag the AZsacra International Poetry Award
By Baral Sen

The Taj Mahal Review Editors declared Sonnet Mondal one of the three winners of the AZsacra International Poetry award sponsored from Russia and given out to three best contributing poets from all over the world by The Taj Mahal Review Journal. Sonnet has become the first and youngest poet to win this award. In their declaration letter the panel of editors mentioned the name of the poem as "Seduced in the Sunderbans" based on which he was being chosen for the award in the first category even before announcing the names of the other following up winners. In the past two years this award has been bagged by eminent poet, critic and peace envoy Maria Cristine Azcona from Argentina, international award winning poet and poetry judge Albert Russo from France, famous writer and photographer Adam Donaldson Powell from Norway, Ban'ya Natsuishi from Japan and Salvattore Amico M Buttaci from U.S.A. Sonnet Mondal who has been recognized all over the world for his poetry will also be representing India solely in the prestigious Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia which has been cited as a step to increase the cultural relations between the two countries India and Macedonia and this honour seems to add another feather while he reads his poetry in their Golden Jubilee Celebration in August.The award will be presented at the end of May.

The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Plays This Weekend
 

Warner Theatre 801 State Street Erie, PA

Sunday, March 20, 3:00PM

Under the direction of Bill Tole, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra will thrill you with all the standard Jimmy Dorsey hits. Their hit songs from the glorious past will include "Amapola", "Maria Elena", "Tangerine", "Besame Mucho", "Chasing Shadows", and many more of your favorite nostalgic tunes made famous by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and their many famous singers over the past decades. Soloist Nancy Knorr formerly of the "Pied Pipers", will recreate those days of elegant 1940's sounds and many more tunes to please you in the audience.

Please Call (814) 864-5681 or visit www.eriecivicmusic.com for more information.

Free Performance by Penn State Behrend Choirs, Young People’s Chorus of Erie

EThe five ensembles of the Penn State Behrend Choirs and the Young People’s Chorus of Erie will give a free joint performance on Saturday, April 9.

The concert takes place at 7 p.m. in the McGarvey Commons of Penn State Behrend’s Reed Union Building. Admission is open to the public.

Performing individually and together will be Penn State Behrend’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers and YPC’s Cantare, Concert Chorus and Young Men’s Chorus. “This is the first time that the two choral programs that share residency at Penn State Behrend have performed a full concert together,” Dr. Jason Bishop, director of the Penn State Behrend choirs and YPC artistic director, noted. “Both choirs will preview programs from their upcoming tours.”

In late May, Penn State Behrend’s choirs will make a performance tour of Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. The next month, the weeklong “YPC Crosses the Commonwealth” tour will stop in six Pennsylvania cities and Washington, D.C.

The Young People’s Chorus of Erie is an outreach program of Penn State Behrend’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is the first affiliate choir of the famed Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

For additional information about the April 9 joint performance, phone 814-898-6789.

Poetry Fills The First Weeks Of Spring 

From www.edgeoferie.blogspot.com

Friday, March 18 and 25, 2011 @ 6:30pm

Poetry Scene  at

The Erie Book Store

137 East 13th St.

Erie, PA, 16503

Open Mic. Everyone is invited to sit and listen, read your own or someone else's poetry. Relax in front of the warm fire and enjoy coffee, tea or a soft drink and a tasty pastry.

Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 11:30 am - 4:00 pm

Bexley Public Library

2411 E. Main Street

Bexley, Columbus, OH

George Bilgere - his most recent book of poetry is The White  Museum, selected in 2010 for the Autumn House Poetry Series.  His other books include Haywire (winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2006) and The Good Kiss (chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to win the University of Akron Poetry Prize in 2001). “In the house of contemporary poetry,” said Collins, “The Good Kiss is a breath of fresh American air.” Bilgere has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Society of Midland Authors, the Ohio Arts Council, the Ohioana Poetry Foundation, and the Witter Bynner Foundation. He has given readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd St.Y in New York, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and at schools and libraries around the country. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review. Bilgere’s poems are often featured on Garrison Keillor’s National Public Radio program, The Writer’s Almanac.  He was the 2003 recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature, the 2006 winner of the Ohioana Poetry Award, and in 2009 he won a Pushcart Prize. George Bilgere lives in Cleveland and teaches at John Carroll University

Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 7:30pm

Enhanced Poetry at Bobby's Place

18th & Cranberry, Erie

$2 cover

Enhanced Poetry -Chuck Joy and Kurt Sahlmann

March 24, 2011

6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College | 4701 College Drive, Erie, PA 16563

The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Spring 2011

Penn State Behrend Reads - Listen to the faculty of the Creative Writing program read their work. You’ll enjoy every minute of these fine writers and educators.

Friday March 25@ 8:00 pm

In the Walker Recital Hall on the campus of Mercyhust College.

Join poetry and music lovers for an evening of poetry and song at Mercyhurst, featuring the work of Beth Gylys, award-winning poet from Georgia State.  Her collection, Matchbook, is a sonnet-sequence of personal ads and have been set to music by Guggeheim fellow Dan Welcher of the University of Texas.  Louisa Jonason, chair of the Music department at Mercyhurst, will direct a performance of Matchbook by vocal artists. The event is part of the Erie County Poet Laureate program for 2010-2011, organized by Dr. Thomas Forsthoefel, chair of Mercyhurst’s Religious Studies Department and the current Erie County poet laureate. For details, contact Forsthoefel at 824-2353.  See you then!

Saturday, March 26, 2011 @ 8:00pm

Invited Artists Series at the International Fellowship of Poets and Spoken Word Artists PA Local 1136

1136 E Lake Rd

Erie, PA

Featuring John Burroughs and Chuck Joy

Sunday, March 27@ 8:00 pm

in the Walker Recital Hall on the campus of Mercyhurst College.     

In collaboration with the Mercyhurst Literary Festival, the poet laureate program, led by Tom Forsthoefel, 2010-2011 Poet Laureate of Erie County, will bring in David Whyte, a poet whose spiritual sensitivities have made him an internationally sought after speaker.The author of six books of poetry and three books of prose, David Whyte has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya.  His life as a poet has created audiences in three areas: the literary world of poetry readings, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organizational leadership.  Join us for a delightful evening with David Whyte.

Thursday, March 31 @ 6:00 p.m.

The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Spring 2011

K.A. Hays

in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.

(reception: 5:30 p.m. in the living room of the Smith Chapel)

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College | 4701 College Drive, Erie, PA 16563

K.A. Hays’ first book is Dear Apocalypse. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Poetry Review, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2009 and Best New Poets 2007. Also a fiction writer and verse translator, she currently holds the Emerging Writer Fellowship at Bucknell University

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