 
Robert Bagg, F. D. Reeve, and Alexander Taylor, three writers published
by Azul Editions, will read from their work at Windham Arts Center, on
Sunday, September 24 at 3 PM. These writers all have their
roots in the 60s and will read from their new work and then engage the
audience in a discussion of the literary and political changes during
the past 50 years and the implications these changes have for
contemporary readers and writers.
F.D. Reeve has had a varied career. After acting in summer
theater, harvesting wheat in the Midwest and working as a longshoreman on
the Hudson River docks, he became a Russian scholar and spent a year in
Moscow and Leningrad as an exchange professor. Reeve became a professor of
letters at Wesleyan University and published poetry, fiction, and literary
criticism. His novel My Sister Life came out last year, as did the poems
³The Return of the Blue Cat² with a CD of his reading with the jazz trio
Exit 59. This fall will see publication of The Toy Soldier & Other Poems. A
new Blue Cat poem appears in the anthology For New Orleans & Other Poems,
forthcoming from Bayeux Arts. He won an Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Golden Rose of the New England
Poetry Society, and a Doctor of Letters from New England College.
Robert Bagg has published several volumes of poetry as well as
translations of ancient Greek drama. His translations have been staged in 60
productions in the USA and abroad. Bagg and James Scully are currently
translating the four plays by Sophocles that don¹t involve Oedipus, and
recently, he has begun to work with his wife, Mary Bagg, on a critical
biography of Richard Wilbur.
Bagg has won a Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim, an N.E.A. Awared, and a National
Book Award Nomination. James Merrill said of his work: ³Bagg¹s is a slender
but altogether valuable body of work.²
Alexander Taylor is Co-Director of Curbstone Press and the
author of five books of poetry, Clear Water, Zadar, Love Is a Terrible
Light, Voices in the Park, and the recently published Dreaming at the Gates
of Fury (Azul Editions). A Bulgarian edition was launched by the Union of
Bulgarian Writers of this book was launched at the International Writers
Festival in Bulgaria in June 2006. Simultaneously, a bilingual chapbook of
his poems, The Look, was published by Orpheus Press in Sofia. He has also
translated extensively from Danish literature and was Poet-In-Residence at
Central Connecticut State University in 1974 and 1976.
 Presented by Curbstone Press.
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