[Two readings while I teach or am out of town. These are both super event put on by Colie Collen from Fence. If you're in the area, you should make your way out there.]
TONIGHT, March 19th @ 7 pm CELEBRATE the upcoming release of A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS with readings from area contributors:
SAM TRUITT is the author of six books in the Vertical Elegies series, including most recently Street Mete, Three Works and The Section. Regarding Fence, he writes: “I recall in Tale of Genji, which is the best and perhaps only book ever written, the prince writing (Arthur Waley translation), ‘Now like a traveler who has tried two ways in vain I stand perplexed where these sad seasons meet.’”
CHRISTIAN PEET is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and the first installment of an ongoing project, The Nines, which appears as chapbook from Palm Press (2006) and is available from Small Press Distribution. He is also the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press. He stood by Fence during the “Summer Fiction Tits” debate and still does, even in an election year.
LAURA DIDYK “I felt like I’d lifted up a floorboard and discovered some secret that were it to leak could, possibly, affect the state of the union, and get me into a heap of trouble if I let it. Eight years later, I’ve come to welcome trouble like that. Fence and the conversations it houses are something all writers in America should be grateful for—whether or not you are a devoted reader or a naysayer. It has that kind of force.”
FREE: wine and refreshments will follow
TOMORROW, March 20, Robert Strong and Raurri Jennings @ YES, READING!
“And sometimes linebreaks are stupid.”
Robert Strong, poet, teacher, and editor of the anthology Joyful Noise: American Spiritual Poetry will read and talk about his work.
Raurri Jennings, local poet and fiction writer, will also read.
Friday, March 20, 2009 6:00pm
Townshend Park Bakery Cafe
238 Washington Ave (between Lark and Henry Johnson)
Albany, NY
Again, Free! Again, Pizza! Again, BYOB!
