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Poet Lynne Knight Reads Tonight
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He would lie listening to these blues and know to place their origin in salty waters rising from the heart, ancestral tears he would not know what to do with until he thought to sing, and, singing, heard the dead instruct him where to place his grief: Here. Where sorrows wash across your face and disappear. Excerpted from "The Unlimited Mood"
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Lynne Knight will be the first author in the Writers' Voice fall series, which begins tonight, Sept. 12, 7:30 pm, in the University Center. She will read from her second full-length collection, The Book of Common Betrayals, which won the Dorothy Brunsman Award from Bear Star Press in 2002.
Knight was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. She graduated from the University of Michigan and from Syracuse University, where she was a fellow in poetry. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ontario Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest and Southern Review. One of her poems appears in Best American Poetry 2000, selected by Rita Dove. Among her other awards are the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest and the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review. Knight lives in Berkeley and teaches writing part time at two Bay Area community colleges.
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