Recent Events
Faculty Poetry Reading
03.06./04.02.08
Manhattanville College Creative Writing Faculty Sally Bliumis Dunn (Talking Underwater, 2007) and Van Hartmann (Shiva Dancing, 2007) will be reading from and signing copies of their recent books of poetry at two locations in March and April:
Brooklyn:
Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m.: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue between Carroll and Garfield, Park Slope. Phone: (718) 783-3075. The closest subways are the 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza, the B/Q to 7th Avenue, or the F to 7th Avenue.
Westchester:
Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 p.m.: Manhattanville College Library
Van has been a contributor to Inkwell and Sally will be at Summer Writers' Week 2008. Here are their full bios:
Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at Manhattanville College. She received her B.A. in Russian language and literature from U.C. Berkeley in 1983 and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002. Her poems have appeared in BigCityLit, Lumina, Nimrod, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry London, RATTLE, Rattapallax, Spoon River Poetry Review and Chance of A Ghost, an anthology put out by Helicon Nine in 2005. In 2002 she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her manuscript, Talking Underwater, which has been a finalist for The University of Arkansas Press' First Book Prize in 2006, a semifinalist for The Kenyon First Book contest in 2002, the Bright Hill Press in 2005 and a finalist for the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize from Ashland Press in 2006, was published by Wind Publications in 2007. She lives in Armonk, New York with her husband, John. They share four children, Ben, Angie, Kaitlin and Fiona.
Van C. Hartmann is an Associate Professor of English at Manhattanville College, in Purchase, New York, where he teaches literature, film studies, and poetry. He was born in Ohio and raised in California. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University, and a doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poetry has been published in Confluence, Confrontation, Inkwell, Red Wheelbarrow Magazine, WinningWriters, Pennsylvania English, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Snake Nation, Texas Review, and The Worcester Review. His first book of poems was published in June: Shiva Dancing (Texture Press, 2007). He lives with his wife, Laurel Peterson, in Norwalk, Connecticut.