Peter Campion reads from "El Dorado," joined by Gretchen Marquette

Normal
0

false
false
false

EN-US
X-NONE
X-NONE

/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}

The “closeness of the
uncanny to the quotidian is Peter Campion’s kind of material.” --Robert Pinsky,
former Poet Laureate and author of Singing School

“Campion’s gifts for
controlling yet spinning the illusion of lost control in a poem are
prodigious.” --Carol Muske-Dukes, author of Twin Cities

In El Dorado,
Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the
beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with
translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms,
and turning his high-res lens on everything from box stores to trout streams to
airport lounges, Campion renders both personal and collective experience with
capacious and subtle skill.

Peter
Campion is
the author of two previous collections of poetry, Other People (2005)
and The Lions (2009), both published by The University of Chicago Press.
He regularly publishes literary and art criticism in numerous journals and has
won a Pushcart Prize. Campion is Program Director of the Department of English
at the University of Minnesota.

----

Gretchen
Marquette's
work has appeared in places such as The Paris Review, Paper Darts, and
Harper's. Her first book of poetry is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015.
Gretchen has served as the assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review
and as a first reader for the National Poetry Series. She currently lives in
the Powderhorn neighborhood in South Minneapolis and teaches at various
colleges and universities.