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Aug.

8th)!

 

August Monthly Meeting

 

What: CWG Monthly Meeting

 

When: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 from 7:00 to 8:45 p.m.

 

Where: The Downtown Branch of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Library

 

The Chattanooga Writers Guild is pleased to present an evening of
readings by poet Kristin Henry. Ms. Henry was born in Tennessee but has
made her home in Melbourne, Australia for the past forty years. She has
published four collections of poetry. Her poems and short fiction and
nonfiction works have also appeared in literary magazines. She has also
given readings for live audiences in venues ranging from universities
and theatres to art galleries, pubs, and used car showrooms. Her poetry
has been called accessible, so this should be a delightful evening of
readings for all listeners.

 

For More Info email [log in to unmask] or call (423)
991-9437

 

More about the Author:

 

Kristin Henry was born in Tennessee in the U.S.A. but has made her home
in Melbourne for the past forty years. Her work, which includes fiction,
non-fiction and reviews, has appeared in many literary journals. She has
published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which includes
a CD of her reading accompanied by music. She's not a singer, but
sometimes enjoys playing around with a song-like rendering of a poem.

 

Her poetry has been called 'accessible'. She's just glad if anything she
writes touches another person. Her subject matter is pretty much the
human experience. Not landscapes. Not animals. Not science. It's the
frail, transcendent fellow struggler that fascinates her.

 

Kristin has always loved reading for a live audience. She's done this
for the past twenty-five years in hundreds of venues from universities
and theatres and art galleries to pubs and busses and used car
showrooms.

 

She also enjoys encouraging others to write. This has taken her all over
Australia and allowed her to work with word lovers in a variety of
situations. As well as fostering the talent of rural women and older
writers, she has tutored people with all sorts of special needs -
physical, mental, emotional and financial.

 

Kristin is a former Director of the Victorian Writers Centre, and past
president of the Melbourne Poets' Union. She is currently teaching
poetry and short story writing in the Professional Writing and Editing
course at one of Melbourne's colleges.

 

Poetry collections:

 

Quick Packer (Rotunda Productions, 2002) Features a CD of Kristin
reading selected poems.

 

What if the Plane Goes Down (Pariah Press, 1995) Short listed for the
New South Wales Premier's Literary Award

 

One Day She Catches Fire (Penguin, 1992)

 

Slices of Wry (Pariah Press, 1985)

 

Comments on Kristin's books:

 

'spine-tingling reading, rare in poetry'

--Australian Book Review

 

'enormity of emotion in spare and stylish verse'

--Australian Women's Book Review

 

'immediate and finely realized'

Southerly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jennifer Hoff

Grant Consultant

 

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Office of Grants and Program Review

615 McCallie Avenue, Dept. 4905

Chattanooga, TN  37403

 

(423) 425-4168 (phone)

(423) 425-4052 (fax)

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