Thursday, January 14th: Poetry Flash presents Andrei Codrescu & Willis Barnstone

Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Romania, on December 20, 1946; emigrated to the United States in 1966; became a U.S. citizen in 1981; is a poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, a columnist on National Public Radio, and editor of Exquisite Corpse, a literary journal on line at www.corpse.org . Andrei is also the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution went to China, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985). His publications include Modern European Poetry (Bantam, 1967), The Other Bible (HarperCollins, 1984) The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets (New England, 1996), a memoir biography With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (Illinois, 1993), and To Touch the Sky (New Directions, 1999). His literary translation of the New Testament, The New Covenant: The Four Gospels and Apocalypse, was published by Riverhead Books in 2002. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, Barnstone is Distinguished Professor at Indiana University.

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