Arts & Theatre

Trident Poetry Series: Maxine Chernoff and Matthew Cooperman

When

September 8 @ 6:30PM

Where

Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St

Maxine Chernoff: Born and raised in Chicago, Maxine Chernoff earned a BA and an MA from the University of Illinois. Winner of the PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in 2006, Chernoff, in an innovative, post-modern approach, often utilizes prose forms. Her collections of poetry include A Vegetable Emergency (1977); Utopia TV Store: prose poems (1979); New Faces of 1952 (1985), winner of the Carl Sandburg Award; Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems (1990); World: Poems 1991–2001 ; and Here (2014). Chernoff’s poems can be surreal, witty, and politically engaged. In a review of World