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Follow on Google News | PB POETRY FESTIVAL to Present Soldier-Poet Brian Turner on Veteran's Day in Delray BeachPB POETRY FESTIVAL to Present Soldier-Poet Brian Turner on Veteran's Day in Delray Beach
Events Will Be Held at Delray Beach Center for the Arts and are FREE for All Veterans (October 10, 2013 – Delray Beach, FL)Miles Coon, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the nonprofit organization would be celebrating Veterans Day 2013 by sponsoring a series of public events with award-winning soldier-poet Brian Turner. These special Veterans Day events will be held at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. "As we prepare for the return of the 10th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival next January, we can think of no better way to honor all of our active and retired servicemen and women than by presenting Brian Turner, who is both a distinguished poet and a proud American veteran,” said Coon. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11: + 3 to 4:30 p.m. The Soldier's Rucksack A Generative Workshop with Brian Turner Limited to 20 participants, this generative workshop will study common (& uncommon) craft techniques often employed by writers of war literature. Participants will explore different approaches for integrating these techniques into their writing practice. The workshop fee is $25 per person, although it is FREE for veterans. TO RSVP for this workshop, please register with Blaise Allen, Palm Beach Poetry Festival’s Director of Community Outreach, at drblaiseallen@ + 7 to 8:30 p.m. Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience A screening of this award-winning documentary, introduced by Brian Turner FREE to the Public. The screening of this film will be followed by a Poetry Reading by Brian Turner (8:45 to 9:15 p.m.), followed by a Q&A with the audience (9:15 to 9:45 p.m.) FREE to the public. About Brian Turner: Brian Turner is the author of two collections of poetry: Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. The first book was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection and has won numerous awards (including the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and the 2007 Poets Prize). The 2009-2010 Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar, Turner has also been awarded a 2009 USA Hillcrest Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His work has been published in Poetry Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, and others. He teaches at Sierra Nevada College. Mr. Turner is a United States Army veteran, and was an infantry team leader for a year in the Iraq War, beginning November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999 and 2000 he was with the 10th Mountain Division, deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From his first-hand experience of combat, and the difficulties of returning home, his two books testify to the power of poetry to help people deal with the most difficult of life’s challenges. About the Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2014: The 10th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held January 20-25, 2014 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Festival will once again feature about a dozen top poets at numerous ticketed public events, including readings, talks and a lively panel discussion. In addition, participants in the festival’s eight poetry workshops will read at several open mics, free to the public. Tickets will go on sale to the public later this year through the festival website and at the Crest Theatre Box Office at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ The Palm Beach Poetry Festival has received several prestigious awards in recent years: + 2013: A Small Business Grant from VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s official source for travel planning. + 2011: The Muse Award for Outstanding Arts & Cultural Organization (budget under $500,000) from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. + 2010: An Arts Challenge Grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. (http://www.knightfoundation.org/) For more information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org (http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.com/) Attached Jpeg: Brian Turner Available for Interview: Miles Coon Palm Beach Poetry Festival 561.231.4913 Palmbeachpoefest@ Media Contact: Gary Schweikhart PR-BS, Inc. 561.756.4298 gary@pr-bs.net End
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