Poetry Reading with
Claire Nicolas White

Hosted by Phil Asaph

Curry Club
10 Woods Corner Road,
Setauket NY, 631-751-4845

All proceeds benefit the upcoming
Walt Whitman cookbook project.

An envelope will be passed around &
Kulwant Wadhwa at the The Curry Club
has generously offered to make a donation.

6:30 - seating, drinks and order meal.
6:30-7:15, Claire will read.
7:15-8pm, dinner, dessert
8pm-9pm-open reading.

Please make a reservation with the Curry Club
as seating is limited to 42 people in the
circa 1890 Railroad Car

ABOUT CLAIR NICOLAS WHITE

Claire Nicolas White (Smith College class of ’46) is a poet and translator. She has written art criticism, (Art News, Newsday), librettos, plays, and is the author of a family history, The Elephant and the Rose (Vineyard Press, 2003); a memoir, Fragments of Stained Glass (Mercury House, 1989); a biography, Joep Nicolas: His Life and Work (Van Spijk, 1979); poetry: Biography & Other Poems (Doubleday, 1981), The Bridge (Cross Cultural Communications, 1987); Riding at Anchor (Waterline Books, 1994); News From Home (Burnham Woods Graphics, 1998); and a novel, The Death of the Orange Trees (Harper and Rowe, 1963). She translated three novels from the Dutch: The Assault by Harry Mulisch (Pantheon Books, 1985 Honorable Mention PEN Translation prize); The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe (Random House, 1993); and My Father’s War by Adriaan van Dis (The New Press, 1996). In 1990 she edited a Dutch issue of Columbia University’s Translation Magazine. She edited Stanford White: Letters to His Family (Rizzoli, 1997) Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Grand Street, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, Witness, Confrontation, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, and others. Her poem "Return to Sint Odilienberg" was published in The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner). Recipient of the Walt Whitman Birthplace award as Long Island Poet in 2005, White is the editor of Oberon poetry magazine.