A Reading and book signing with Stuart Dischell

Thursday,
October 30, 2003
Washington Square Hall, Room 207, SJSU
7:30 PM. FREE

Sponsored by the Poetry Center San José

Stuart Dischell

Stuart Dischell, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1954, was educated at Antioch College and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. His first book, Good Hope Road, was a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection and published by Viking. Evenings & Avenues appeared in the Penguin Poets series in 1996. Dig Safe, his newest collection, was published by Penguin in April 2003.

Dischell's poems have appeared widely in journals such as The New Republic, Slate, The Kenyon Review and in anthologies including Hammer and Blaze, The Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and in the Low Residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

"His poetry is witty, precise and fully engaging."
Tampa Tribune, June 8, 2003

Dischell’s Greensboro home page, with several of his poems (including audio versions)

     
Stuart Dischell's page