Summer Reading

First Thursday Reading – April 1, San Antonio Central Library (with Jesse Amado and Vocab) 6:30pm

Saturday – April 10 – 6:00PM Reading and Book Party for the Starting Today Anthology
Paris on the Platte Cafe, 1553 Platte Street, Denver, CO

More than twenty contributors from the Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days anthology will read their poems and celebrate the release of the book. Readers include: Matt Rohrer, Sarah Vap, Cole Swenson,  Catherine Wagner,  Joshua Marie Wilkinson, John Gallaher, Laynie Browne, Matthew Zapruder, Sasha Steensen, Michael Dumanis, Martha Collins, Craig Morgan Teicher,  Erika Meitner, Allison Joseph, Erin Belieu, Rachel Zucker, Patricia Smith, Jenny Browne, Lesléa Newman, Katy Lederer, Lindsey Wallace, Dara Wier, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Pimone Triplett, Robin Beth Schaer, Tony Trigilio , Catherine Barnett, Patrick Culliton, Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Cooley, Cate Marvin, Michael Morse, Prageeta Sharma and Mark Bibbins.
Summer means less running, and much more reading.

My stack of recent keepers includes.

Memory and Enthusiasm – W.S. DiPiero

The Lost Alphabet – Lisa Olstein

To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill: ed. Michael McGriff

The Wedding Dress – Fanny Howe

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife –  Lisa Miller

Nothing Happened And Then It Did – Jake Silverstein

Burn Lake – Carrie Fountain

Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine

The Anthologist- Nicholas Baker

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen

Transparent Gestures – Rodney Jones

Texaco – Patrick Chamoiseau

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto – David Shields