featuring Jeff Poniewaz and Milwaukee Poet Laureate Antler
Tuesday, November 18th, 7pm
at Marquette's Haggerty Museum
Free!

The Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette University campus
will host a free poetry reading featuring Riverwest poets
Jeff Poniewaz and Antler. Both poets have consistently
addressed environmental issues in their poetry.

Antler's book of "Selected Poems" was published in 2000.
He won the 1985 Whitman Award, given to authors "whose
contribution best reveal the continuing presence of Walt
Whitman in American poetry." He was chosen by Friends of
Milwaukee Public Library to be Milwaukee's Poet Laureate
during 2002-03. Last May the Council for Wisconsin Writers
gave him its Major Achievement Award. Allen Ginsberg
called him "one of Whitman's 'poets and orators to come'."

Jeff Poniewaz has taught Literature of Ecological Vision
at UW-Milwaukee since 1989. His poems have appeared in many
periodicals including Greenpeace Chronicles, and in
anthologies including Earth Prayers. In 1987 he won a
Discovery Award from PEN, an international writers
organization. His book "Dolphin Leaping in the Milky Way"
was praised by Allen Ginsberg for its
"Whitmanesque/Thoreauvian verve and wit."

This event is free and open to the public.

"For decades now, Jeff Poniewaz and Antler have been
dealing with the situation of Earth, which has now reached
crisis proportions and begins to penetrate general public
consciousness. Poets like these are the antennae of the
race--and Jeff and Antler, rising up out of Wisconsin, make
a kind of miracle of a flowering of intelligence and
information out of the provinces rather than out of San
Francisco or New York, and so we have poets from the
interior of the country, rather than from the capital
cities, with information important to the capitals."
--Allen Ginsberg

This event is being held in conjunction with "Agnes Denes:
Projects for Public Spaces," an environmental art exhibit
at Marquette University's Haggerty Art Museum, which
features a retrospective of over 60 of her projects
represented by 110 works and continues until January 4,
2004.

The Haggerty Museum of Art is located on the campus of
Marquette University. Free parking is available in the
Mary B. Finnigan Parking Lot (enter on 11th St. through
Marquette Lot J).