SPRING 2012: TROY, CALIFORNIA, SEATTLE, TORONTO, MINNEAPOLIS

Troy, New York
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Russell Sage College
Molly Peacock gives the Carol Ann Donohue Memorial Poetry Reading
Bush Memorial Hall
Reception and Signing
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Davis, California
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 8:00 pm
John Natsoulas Center for the Arts
521 1st Street
Davis, CA 95616
phone: 530.756.3938
Gallery Website
Gallery email

San Rafael, California
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Molly Peacock reads at the Marin Poetry Center
Falkirk Cultural Center
1408 Mission
San Rafael, CA
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Seattle, Washington
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Molly Peacock reads at the Evergreen School
15201 Meridian Ave. North
Shoreline, WA 98133
phone: 206.364.2650
fax: 206.365.1827

Louisville, Kentucky
Friday, May 18 through Saturday, May 26, 2012
Molly Peacock teaches at the
Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program
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Toronto, Ontario
Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00-1:30 pm
Lunch and Learn at The Gardiner Museum
co-sponsored by the Literary Review of Canada
Molly Peacock will share Mrs. Delany's flower collages from her book, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72, connecting them to objects within the Gardiner Museum's collection, and discussing how the witty, talented, profound Delany took her craft into art.
The Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C7
phone: 416.586.8080
fax: 416.586.8085
$25 (includes a bag lunch by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens)
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Gardiner Museum email

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 10:00 am
Molly Peacock talks about Late Life Creativity
at the multi-genre Conference for Writers 50+
with Q & A and book signing
The Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN
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West Chester, Pennsylvania
Molly Peacock at the West Chester Poetry Conference
West Chester University, West Chester, PA
     Thursday, June 7 to Friday, June 9, 2012
A Master Class in Metaphor and the Sonnet, with poet Tim Liardet
     Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8:1 5pm
Reading
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THE SECOND BLUSH

The Second Blush, Molly's sixth volume of poems, was published in the U.S.by W.W. Norton & Company in hardcover in June 2008 and in paperback in December 2009.

It is available in the U.S. from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, and local bookstores.

The Second Blush was published in Canada in March 2009 by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.

It is available in Canada from McClelland and Stewart, Amazon.ca, chapters.indigo.ca, and local bookstores.

Check out these pages about The Second Blush on McClelland and Stewart's Web site: Book Information, Author Spotlight, Author Interview, Reader's Guide.

It is available in the U.K. from Amazon.co.uk, Waterstone's, and local bookstores.

THE PAPER GARDEN: MRS. DELANY BEGINS HER LIFE'S WORK AT 72

Read, hear, and see much more about The Paper Garden on its Web site (www.peacockpapergarden.com). Click on the link at the top, the book cover above, or here.

Recent news about The Paper Garden

Paperback of The Paper Garden in Canada
McClelland and Stewart has published a paperback edition of The Paper Garden in Canada. Information

Paperback of The Paper Garden in the U.S.
Bloomsbury USA will publish a paperback edition of The Paper Garden in the U.S. on April 24, 2012. Information

Paperback of The Paper Garden in the U.K.
Bloomsbury will publish a paperback edition of The Paper Garden in the U.K. in May 2012. Information

"Here on Earth"
Hear Molly and Priscila Uppal discuss the Best Canadian Poetry in Englsh 2011 on Jean Feraca's "Here on Earth" (Wisconsin Public Radio), broadcast on September 21, 2011
Listen to the program

"To the Best of Our Knowledge"
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," broadcast on August 12, 2011
Listen to the program
   click on "Listen" to hear the interview
   click on "Guest(s): Molly Peacock" for more information about Molly

Interview with Myles Dungan on RTE-Radio 1 (Ireland)
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden with Myles Dungan on RTE-Radio 1 (Ireland), broadcast on August 9, 2011
Listen to the program
   Molly's segment begins 42 minites into the program and runs for 16 minutes.

Interview with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Hear Molly discuss The Paper Garden with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer on "Accents" (WRFL-FM, Lexington, Kentucky), broadcast on July 29, 2011
Listen to the program

The Paper Garden has now been published:
in Canada by McClelland and Stewart
in the U.S. by Bloomsbury USA
in the U.K. and Ireland by Bloomsbury
in Australia and New Zealand by Scribe Publications

read excerpts of reviews of The Paper Garden

From Molly's essay about Mrs. Delany, "Passion Flowers in Winter" (which appeared in The Best American Essays 2007):

". . . a life's work is always largely unfinished, and it requires creativity till the day a person dies."

The fourth volume of the annual series The Best Canadian Poetry in English has been published by Tightrope Books in Toronto . Molly is the General Editor of the series. She blogged about the 2008 volume from January 25 to 31, 2009 on The Best American Poetry Website.

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Molly Peacock is a faculty member in Spalding University's Brief-Residency MFA in Writing program. For more information, click on the logo above or here for the program's Web site, or go to its Facebook fan page.