dA Center Poetry

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2 p.m. Free Poetry Reading, Reception, and Book Signing by Michelle Bitting and Neil Aitken. Open Mic follows at 3:15 p.m. ($6 donation for the open mic.)
Michelle Bitting	Neil Aitken Photo credit: Dawnae Wilson
2007 dA Center for the Arts Poetry Prize finalist Michelle Bitting Abrams won the 2008 DeNovo First Book Award for her full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss. Author of the chapbook, Blue Laws, she is also winner of 2003 Glimmer Train Poetry Open, the 2004 Poets on Parnassus Prize and the 2005 Virginia Brendemuehl Poetry Competition.	Neil Aitken was named winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his full-length manuscript The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga 2008). He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and various parts of western Canada and the United States. Awarded an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, he is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
The reading is free and open to the public. Open Mic: $6. Sign up at 1:45. dA Center for the Arts 252-D S. Main Street Pomona, Ca. 91766 (909) 397-9716 (www.dacenter.org) *This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.