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Red Hen Press in Pasadena continues to provide in-home entertainment with another round of its free Hen House at Home series Tuesday, October 20, featuring three leading poets who will read from their works and discuss them online through Facebook Live, YouTube and LinkedIn Live.
Hen House at Home is on every Tuesday and starts at 4 p.m. The program usually begins with an introduction by Red Hen Press staff who host the series, followed by the featured authors presenting their work and reading excerpts from them. The show then continues with the authors interacting and exchanging stories and ideas about how they come up with their material.
The authors’ works are usually available to order from Red Hen Press.
On Tuesday, the featured poets are Jim Peterson, author of “The Horse Who Bears Me Away”, Susan Ludvigson, author of “Wave If You Can See Me”, and Joshua Rivkin, whose debut collection “Suitor!” has just recently been published.
Jim Peterson has authored six collections of poetry, three chapbooks, numerous plays, and a novel, “Paper Crown,” published by Red Hen Press and recently made available on Audible. His poetry collection, “The Owning Stone,” won Red Hen Press’s Benjamin Saltman Award for 1999. His newest collection, “Speech Minus Applause,” was released by Press 53 in 2019.
Peterson’s poems have appeared widely in journals including Poetry, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and many others. His stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review, South Dakota Review, and The Laurel Review. A collection of stories, “Many Small Fires,” is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.
A retired Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph College, Peterson is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Omaha Low-Res MFA Program in Creative Writing. He lives with his charismatic corgi, Mama Kilya, in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Susan Ludvigson has published ten collections of poems, most with LSU Press. She has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEA, Fulbright, and Witter-Bynner fellowships as well as North and South Carolina Fellowships. She represented the U.S. at writers’ meetings in Belgium, Canada, France, and the former Yugoslavia. Journal publications include the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, Poetry, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, and Five Points.
Now Professor Emerita at Winthrop University, Ludvigson also served as poet-in-residence at the University of South Carolina and Appalachian State University. The Library of Congress recorded a reading of her poems in 1995. She is the former director of the Lena Miles-Wever Todd Poetry series.
Joshua Rivkin is the author of “Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly,” a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets.
A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow in poetry, Rivkin has received awards and scholarships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
To watch Hen House at Home, you can go to the Red Hen Press website, www.redhenpress.org, www.Facebook.com/redhenpress, www.YouTube.com/
