Poet Kevin Prufer will read from his work beginning at 7 p.m. on Jan. 28 at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. Open free to the public, the reading is sponsored by The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry Circuit.
Local writer Michael Tod Edgerton will open for Prufer. The Review also will debut its winter 2009 issue, which includes a long section of writings by and about the award-winning Albert Goldbarth as well as artwork from Athens-based photographer Michael J. Marshall.
Prufer is the author of four books of poetry, including National Anthem (2008), and the editor of three anthologies. He also serves as editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, is an associate editor of American Book Review and is vice president/secretary of the National Book Critics Circle.
Prufer received his undergraduate degree from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He has graduate degrees from Hollins University and Washington University.
Edgerton is a doctoral student in English at UGA and the 2009-2010 graduate assistant at the Review. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Five Fingers Review, Sonora Review, Chelsea, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, New American Writing and Word For/Word, among other publications.
The winter 2009 Georgia Review’s Goldbarth feature includes ten of his new poems, a new essay and a “self-interview” he composed especially for the issue; commentary on the man and his work by a variety of others; and a portfolio of photos of Goldbarth by Skyler Lovelace.
