Wednesday April 30th, 2008 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Nance Van Winckel has received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine's Friends of Literature Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared recently in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares.

No Starling is Van Winckel's fifth collection of poems, her fourth book of poems, After a Spell received the Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry. She has also published three books of short stories, most recently Curtain Creek Farm, which received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize. A Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship was received in 2005 for a work in progress.

Nance taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois (1979-90) and currently teaches in the MFA in Writing programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College. She was editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990-96. She served as the 2000 Richard Hugo Poet in Residence at the University of Montana and as the 2006 U. of North Dakota Poet in Residence. She has taught at Centrum Writers Conference, Utah's Writers @ Work, Portland Oregon's Wordstock, Seattle's Hugo House, and at several other writing festivals and conferences.

We're looking forward to a lovely spring evening at A Book for All Seasons. We'll be under our ancient Oak Tree, up in our "TreeHouse" balcony and we will listen to the words of this celebrated Poet as she reads from her book No Starling.

Please join us and and celebrate National Poetry Month!

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