NEW YORK CITY and CHICAGO, WINTER 2012

New York City
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:30 pm
The Leon Levy Center for Biography Salutes Two Books by Fellows: The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock and Eric Walrond, the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean Diaspora by James Davis
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St.
Skylight Room, 9th Floor, Room 9100
No charge - RSVP

New York City
Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 2:00-4:00 pm
Poets House 25th-Anniversary Program: Molly Peacock on John Donne and George Herbert
Molly explores the metaphysical tradition of the 17th century with a lively examination of how English mystics John Donne and George Herbert blended the sacred and the profane.
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
212-431-7920
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New York City
Four Sundays: February 12, 19, 26, March 11, 2012 - 2:00-5:00 pm
The Small Poem Literary Seminar and Studio with Molly Peacock
The pungency of the brief remark is the subject of this seminar and studio, which is designed both for poets and for readers of poetry. We will read and write the small poem, deciphering its mysteries and making its power our own as we consider works by Sappho, Basho, Hardy, Dickinson, Crapsey, Williams, Creeley, Szymborska, Gospodinov, Ammons, Pound, Menashe, Neidecker, Swir, Angelova, and many others.
Students who must miss a class receive email responses to their poems.
Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St. Y, Lexington Ave. at 92nd St.
$385 - Partial, prorated enrollment permitted.
Class Code: CW12T71023
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Chicago
March 1 and 3, 2012
Molly is a Featured Presenter at this year's AWP Conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
— Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 3:00-4:15 pm
"Page Meets Stage," sponsored by Blue Flower Arts.
Molly gives a poetry reading. Other readers are Taylor Mali, Roger Bonair-Agard, Mark Doty, and Marilyn Nelson.
Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
— Saturday, March 3, 2012 - noon-1:15 pm
"Literary Necromancy: The Art of Writing Biography" panel
Molly speaks about The Paper Garden. Other speakers are Evan Balkan, Robert Polito, and Brenda Wineapple.
Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Continental A, Lobby Level
Conference information

THE SECOND BLUSH

The Second Blush, Molly's sixth volume of poems, was published in the U.S.by W.W. Norton & Company in hardcover in June 2008 and in paperback in December 2009.

It is available in the U.S. from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, and local bookstores.

The Second Blush was published in Canada in March 2009 by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.

It is available in Canada from McClelland and Stewart, Amazon.ca, chapters.indigo.ca, and local bookstores.

Check out these pages about The Second Blush on McClelland and Stewart's Web site: Book Information, Author Spotlight, Author Interview, Reader's Guide.

It is available in the U.K. from Amazon.co.uk, Waterstone's, and local bookstores.

THE PAPER GARDEN: MRS. DELANY BEGINS HER LIFE'S WORK AT 72

Read, hear, and see much more about The Paper Garden on its Web site (www.peacockpapergarden.com). Click on the link at the top, the book cover above, or here.

Recent news about The Paper Garden

Paperback of The Paper Garden out in Canada
McClelland and Stewart has published a paperback edition of The Paper Garden in Canada. Information

"Here on Earth"
Hear Molly and Priscila Uppal discuss the forthcoming Best Canadian Poetry in Englsh 2011 on Jean Feraca's "Here on Earth" (Wisconsin Public Radio), broadcast on September 21, 2011
Listen to the program

"To the Best of Our Knowledge"
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," broadcast on August 12, 2011
Listen to the program
   click on "Listen" to hear the interview
   click on "Guest(s): Molly Peacock" for more information about Molly

Interview with Myles Dungan on RTE-Radio 1 (Ireland)
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden with Myles Dungan on RTE-Radio 1 (Ireland), broadcast on August 9, 2011
Listen to the program
   Molly's segment begins 42 minites into the program and runs for 16 minutes.

Interview with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer on "Accents" (WRFL-FM, Lexington, Kentucky), broadcast on July 29, 2011
Listen to the program

The Paper Garden has now been published:
in Canada by McClelland and Stewart
in the U.S. by Bloomsbury USA
in the U.K. and Ireland by Bloomsbury
in Australia and New Zealand by Scribe Publications

read excerpts of reviews of The Paper Garden

From Molly's essay about Mrs. Delany, "Passion Flowers in Winter" (which appeared in The Best American Essays 2007):

". . . a life's work is always largely unfinished, and it requires creativity till the day a person dies."

The fourth volume of the annual series The Best Canadian Poetry in English has been published by Tightrope Books in Toronto . Molly is the General Editor of the series. She blogged about the 2008 volume from January 25 to 31, 2009 on The Best American Poetry Website.

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Molly Peacock is a faculty member in Spalding University's Brief-Residency MFA in Writing program. For more information, click on the logo above or here for the program's Web site, or go to its Facebook fan page.