...In-between sets from poet Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow

April 12, 2016

April 21, 2016

Nothing like a little horn-blasting promotion, right?
The date is almost here, folks! I'm looking forward to reading for you~




Thursday, April 21st, 2016
Poet Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow


5:00-6:30 p.m.
All-Ages Poetry Writing Workshop
RSVP to ehutchison@azhumanities.org

7:00-7:45 p.m.
Poetry Reading and Q&A

ARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
1242 N. Central Ave - Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 257-0335

Free event! Enjoy light refreshments!
Join poet Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow for a poetry workshop and reading in downtown Phoenix. Selected participants will engage in a writing workshop with Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow held at the historic office of Arizona Humanities.

To participate in the workshop, send a sample of writing up to 35 lines by April 11th (deadline extended!) to ehutchison@azhumanities.org.
Afterwards, Edlow will read from both of her poetry book collections, The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor, and Old School Superhero Loves a Good Wristwatch. Interspersed with the reading of various poems, hear how Edlow crafts, revises, and finalizes her poems. Learn how a poem comes into being, takes shape, and occupies its own world.

About Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow's poetry collection is 
The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor (Salmon Poetry, 2012). Her chapbook is Old School Superhero Loves a Good Wristwatch (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). She won the 2012 Red Hen Press Poetry Award (judge: Cynthia Hogue) - the poem, "Super Dan Comics Question Box Series #18," was published in The Los Angeles Review. She won the 2014 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize (judge: Jericho Brown) for the poem, "The Timekeeper," published in Tusculum Review. She is also the recipient of the Willow Review Prize for Poetry, the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry has appeared widely, including American Literary ReviewAmerican Poetry ReviewBarrow StreetCimarron ReviewCutthroat: A Journal of the ArtsFjords ReviewFolioFourteen Hills,Georgetown ReviewGulf CoastThe Main Street Rag, Smartish Pace and Tahoma Literary Review. Poems have also been featured in the anthologies Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology,Drawn to Marvel, The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology and Not A Muse.New poetry is forthcoming in: Dublin Poetry ReviewFulcrumIodine Poetry Review and Plume.  Her next full-length verse collection, Horn Section All Day Every Day, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2017.