| Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz will give a poetry reading as part of the Poet’s Voice series at Greenwich Library on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 3:00 p.m.
Mr. Schultz is the author of several collections of poetry, including his most recent, Failure, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
He has received several prestigious awards and grants for his poetry. His collection, Deep Within the Ravine, was the recipient of The Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize. Like Wings won an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination. Mr. Schultz is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He has also received, among others, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. Schultz is the founder and director of The Writer’s Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.
“Philip Schultz is a hell of a poet, one of the very best of his generation, full of slashing language, good rhythms, surprises, and the power to leave you meditating in the cave of his poems,” Norman Mailer has said of the author.
The reading will take place in the Library’s Meeting Room on the second floor and is free and open to all. Poet’s Voice has been in existence since 1977 and is sponsored by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund and the Friends of Greenwich Library. For more information, call Alice Bonvenuto at 622-7919.
The Friends of the Greenwich Library is a not-for-profit membership corporation which is open to all upon annual contribution. Membership funds support free Library programs. The Friends nominate and elect trustees of the Greenwich Library. Friends volunteers spend countless hours each month working in outreach, assisting Library staff and fundraising. The Byram and Cos Cob branches are both supported by their own Friends volunteer groups. For more information about the Friends, or to join, call 622-7938. MORE INFORMATION: "Failure"By Philip Schultz
Click here to listen to Philip Schultz read this poem.
To pay for my father's funeral
I borrowed money from people
he already owed money to.
One called him a nobody.
No, I said, he was a failure.
You can't remember
a nobody's name, that's why
they're called nobodies.
Failures are unforgettable.
The rabbi who read a stock eulogy
about a man who didn't belong to
or believe in anything
was both a failure and a nobody.
He failed to imagine the son
and wife of the dead man
being shamed by each word.
To understand that not
believing in or belonging to
anything demanded a kind
of faith and buoyancy.
An uncle, counting on his fingers
my father's business failures—
a parking lot that raised geese,
a motel that raffled honeymoons,
a bowling alley with roving mariachis—
failed to love and honor his brother,
who showed him how to whistle
under covers, steal apples
with his right or left hand. Indeed,
my father was comical.
His watches pinched, he tripped
on his pant cuffs and snored
loudly in movies, where
his weariness overcame him
finally. He didn't believe in:
savings insurance newspapers
vegetables good or evil human
frailty history or God.
Our family avoided us,
fearing boils. I left town
but failed to get away.
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Police Watch, Aug. 11 The following are today's released reports:
POSSESSION
Layla Juma, 22, of 32 Fox Lane was arrested Aug. 7 and charged with possession of hallucinogens, sale of hallucinogens, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. Police were investigating an unrelated incident when they began to suspect that Juma was involved in narcotic activity. Police said investigators found drugs in Juma’s possession and in her car. Juma was released on a $2,500 surety bond and is due in court Aug. 15.
LARCENY
David Vega, 31, of Bradley Beach, N.J. was arrested Aug. 7 and charged with third degree larceny, conspiracy to commit third degree burglary and conspiracy to commit fifth degree larceny. Police were investigating car thefts in central Greenwich commuter lots and doing surveillance of the areas when undercover officers saw Vega and Jose Rodriguez, 35, of New Haven, try to break into a car with a GPS unit affixed to the windshield. According to police, a search of Vega’s car found several more stolen GPS units. Rodriguez was charged with conspiracy to commit third degree burglary and conspiracy to commit fifth degree larceny. Vega was held in lieu of a $5,000 cash bond; Rodriguez was held in lieu of a $1,000 cash bond. They are due in court Aug. 15.
DUI
Geovany Alvares, 24, of Stamford was arrested Aug. 8 and charged with driving under the influence and driving without a license. Police said officers saw Alvares’ car traveling westbound on Mill Street with a front headlight out. Police pulled over his car. Officers said when he was asked for his license, Alvares said he didn’t have one. Police said his speech was slurred and confused and he could not pass field sobriety tests. He was released on a $750 cash bond and is due in court Aug. 25.
DUI
Maria Rodriguez, 25, of Stamford was arrested Aug. 10 and charged with driving under the influence. Police responded to an accident on East Putnam Avenue and interviewed Rodriguez. Officers said she smelled of alcohol and failed three field sobriety tests. Rodriguez was released on a $250 cash bond and is due in court Aug. 25.
TRESPASS
Jeffrey Borsk, 62, was arrested Aug. 10 and charged with first degree criminal trespass. Borsk, who has no listed address, was allegedly found sleeping inside an unoccupied room at the Howard Johnson’s Hotel in Riverside. The hotel is under renovation and is closed. Police said that Borsk has repeatedly been asked not to trespass on the property and that no trespassing signs are clearly posted. Borsk was held in lieu of a $500 cash bond and is due in court Aug. 18.
FALSE STATEMENT
Keri Cavaliere, 25, of 9 Peck Ave. Apt. 2 was arrested Aug. 10 and charged with second degree false statement and interfering with an officer. Cavaliere allegedly filed a false complaint on July 24 that she had been physically grabbed by a man while jogging on East Elm Street. She turned herself in on the charge. Cavaliere was released on a $500 cash bond and is due in court Aug. 18.
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