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March 18th '06 John Yau, Norma Cole, Tom Raworth 
Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. She is currently working on Collective Memory, a text-image letterpress book to be published by Granary Books, 2006. Among her poetry books are Spinoza in Her Youth, MARS and SCOUT, a text/image work, from Krupskaya Editions in CD-ROM format. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, The Fund for Poetry and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. "Poetics of Vertigo," Cole’s George Oppen Memorial Lecture, won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Cole and Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins won the Purchase Award for their photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize." Other collaborations include A Library Book with poet Michael Palmer, We Address with painter Amy Trachtenberg, and Catasters, a text/paste up collaboration with visual artist Jess. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977. Tom Raworth was born in London, travelled, now lives in Cambridge and is shorter than he was ten years ago. He will be pleased to be in Baltimore again. John Yau's most recent book is Ing Grish, with artwork by Thomas Nozkowski (Saturnalia Books, 2005). He has two books forthcoming, Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin) and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (University of Michigan Press). He teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York. Clayton & Co. Fine Books *
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