A month ago, I erroneously stated that April's Observable Reading was the last of the season. Don't ask me what I was smoking that day, because I was wrong, wrong, wrong. TONIGHT is the last reading of the series, and it is the poetry reading version of the fireworks finale:
"The reading will featuring contributors to From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009), a exhilarating new print volume derived from the astonishing From the Fishouse audio archive of emerging poets (www.fishousepoems.org).
Stacey Lynn Brown is the author of Cradle Song (C&R Press, 2009). She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Gabrielle Calvcoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, forthcoming in 2009). She teaches in the graduate creative writing programs of California College of the Arts and Warren Wilson College, and lives in Los Angeles. Gabriel Fried is Poetry Editor at Persea Books and the author of Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande Books, 2007). He lives in Columbia, Missouri. Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003). His second book, Mixology, was selected as a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and will be published by Penguin Books in 2009. He teaches creative writing and literature at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville."
Good stuff. Don't miss it. Here's the pertinent info:
Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest at Manchester Rd.
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 8 p.m., Free
For more information, call the St. Louis Poetry Center at 314-973-0616, or go to stlouispoetrycenter.org.
