John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appeared
In 1999 from Salmon Poetry and was described by "Kirkus Reviews" as "an auspicious beginning"
and the poems as "quite wonderful."
His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracing
an imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond, will appear
from Salmon in April 2006.
He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy of
American Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,
Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of these
translations.
He has read his work all across across the U.S.
from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary. In Summer
2004, he did five readings around Ireland: in the Temple Bar
Reading Series, at the Irish Writers Centre, at the UCC Summer School, at
the IASIL conference at UCG, and at Oideas Gael. In earlier years he has
on several occasions read at the Writers' Centre as well as at the
Galway Arts Centre and at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School.
He completed a B.A. at Boston College and an M.A. in Creative Writing at
Syracuse University and then went on to do a Ph.D. at U.C., Berkeley. He
is now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and
both founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in
Ireland program there.
While in Ireland he will give a number of other readings in Donegal and Galway.
As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets..
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