Tickets Available at 5 p.m. for Page to the Podium: Gary Snyder
February 29, 2012
Location: Teton County Library
Jackson, WY- A quiet enthusiasm has been growing as word spreads about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder’s upcoming visit to Jackson.
Get free tickets to “Page to the Podium: Gary Snyder” beginning on Wednesday, February 29 at 5 p.m. at Teton County Library or during regular hours at Alta Branch Library. Tickets are limited to one per card; available first-come, first-serve. Patrons may claim tickets for friends or a spouse but must bring a library card or card number for each ticket they wish to claim.
Snyder’s Page to the Podium event will be on Tuesday, March 13 from 6-8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, Center Theater. Snyder will give a poetry reading followed by an interview with author, Exum mountain guide, and Zen practitioner, Jack Turner. A book signing with Snyder will complete the evening.
Snyder’s accomplishments include 18 published collections of poetry and essays, numerous awards and fellowships, countless international interviews, keynote lectures and an endowed chair at University of California at Davis. His writing delves into themes of pollution and overpopulation, wilderness ethics, Buddhist principles, as well as Native American mythology. In 1975, Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “Turtle Island,” a meditation on the geo-mythical history of the planet. Read more about Snyder at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gary-snyder.
Also, on Wednesday, March 14, from 5:45-7 p.m. at the Old Wilson Schoolhouse, Snyder will give a poetry performance. Space for this second event will be limited, without tickets, and seating is first-come, first-serve.
For more information, Pauline Towers-Dykeman, 307-733-2164 ext. 217.
Teton County Library Foundation’s speaker series brings nationally recognized and award-winning writers to the valley. These featured poets, novelists, memoirists, and other great writers contribute to the community’s cultural exchange by illuminating literature and ideas.
Our next Page to the Podium presentation will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2011. Our speaker will be evocative novelist, screenplay writer, and Yale University senior lecturer, Michael Cunningham. Cunningham earned a Pulitzer Prize for his work The Hours, which was subsequently made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman as Virginia Wolff, a role for which Kidman won an Oscar. Free tickets for Cunningham's evening talk on his work, the writing life, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, and much more will be available with the presentation of a Teton County or Wyoming library card or card number beginning at 5 p.m, Wednesday, October 5 at the main library Front Desk or during regular hours at Alta Branch Library. Tickets limited to one per card; available first-come, first-serve. Patrons may claim tickets for friends or a spouse but must bring a library card or card number for each ticket they wish to claim.
Tickets for an Author Chat with Michael Cunningham on the evening of October 21, 2011 will be available for purchase on Wednesday, October 5 at tclib.org/authorchat.
For additional information about Cunningham, visit www.barclayagency.com/cunningham.html
