Marge Piercy, co-author with Ira Wood of the award-winning So You Want To Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and Personal Narrative, has written sixteen novels, most recently Sex Wars from Morrow/Harper Collins, who also published her memoir, Sleeping with Cats.
She is the author of 16 poetry collections including What are Big Girls Made Of? and the Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish theme, and most recently Colors Passing Through Us, published by Knopf, with The Crooked Inheritance coming in October. A CD of her political poetry LOUDER, WE CAN’T HEAR YOU YET is available from Leapfrog Press.
Ira Wood is the author of three novels, The Kitchen Man, Going Public, and Storm Tide, co-authored with Marge Piercy. He has written screenplays for Universal Pictures and his short pieces have been published in ‘Ploughshares’, ‘The Sun,’ and the ‘Utne Reader’ among many magazines. Since 1996 he has been the editor-in-chief of Leapfrog Press, one of America’s premiere ‘boutique’ publishers, which the Boston Globe calls “the pulse of what’s hot in the publishing world.”
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7:30 p.m., Clark Lounge: Ira Wood: a lecture (with a brief reading), “Why Should You Write If Nobody Reads: How to Get Published in Difficult Times”
Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:30 p.m., Hockett Family Recital Hall: Marge Piercy: a reading
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