Stella Adler Welcomes Louis Jenkins For Poetry Reading 12/12

The Stella Adler Studio welcomes Louis Jenkins for a poetry reading on Friday, December 12 at 1:00 pm. The reading is presented by The Harold Clurman Center for Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word and is free and open to the public. Jenkins will read from his latest book, European Shoes (Will o' the Wisp Books), which was released this month. Jenkins will also be available to sign copies of the book.

Actor, director and playwright, Mark Rylance, will introduce Louis Jenkins. The two men are also collaborating on a one-man show based on Jenkins's poetry, to be performed by Rylance. The first workshop of this piece is on Monday, December 15. Among his many accomplishments as a theater artist, Rylance appeared in Boeing-Boeing on Broadway. He won both a Drama Desk award and a Tony award for his work and for his acceptance speech for the Tony, Rylance read a piece by Louis Jenkins.

"It is a great pleasure to have Mark and Louis participate in the Studio's lecture series," says Tom Oppenheim, Artistic Director of the Stella Adler Studio. "Both men are exceptional artists and their very presence at the school enriches and expands our community. It is our goal to bring artists like these men into contact with our students, faculty and the city of New York."

About The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is an acting school based in New York City. The actress and teacher Stella Adler founded the Studio in 1949. Adler founded the Studio on her belief in the seriousness of her art. Adler and the school have trained many of the brilliant actors of our time, including Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is a nonprofit organization, which trains over 500 actors annually. The Studio also presents lectures, poetry readings, concerts, theater performances, dance theater events and an annual arts festival. www.stellaadler.com

About Louis Jenkins
Jenkins was born and raised in Oklahoma and he has lived in Duluth, MN since 1970. Louis Jenkins's poems have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1999 and Great American Prose Poems. His most recent book is North of the Cities and a new book, European Shoes (published in December 2008). Jenkins received two Bush Foundation Fellowships for poetry, a Loft-McKnight fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, an ARAC Fellowship and the 2000 George Morrison Artist Award. Jenkins has read his poetry on A Prairie Home Companion and was a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in 1996.

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