Brian Clements Reads in New Haven Feb 16th

Word of mouth open mic reading series, Arts & Literature Lab Gallery, 319 Peck St., New Haven

Third Friday of Every Month @ 7pm Poets are encouraged to arrive a few minutes early to sign up for open mic.

Upcoming Features:
FEBRUARY: Brian Clements, Friday, February 16 at 7pm

Brian Clements is the author of Essays Against Ruin, a book of poems from Texas Review Press, and of And How to End It, a book of prose poems forthcoming from Quale Press. He edits the small press Firewheel Editions and Firewheel’s flagship publication, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He lives in Newtown and coordinates the MFA in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

Alimentum-The Literature of Food

Tuesday February 20^th, 2007

6:30 pm

Alimentum-The Literature of Food

Reading

The Mercantile Library of New York

(“a midtown oasis for book lovers”)

17 East 47th Street, New York, NY

Wine & Appetizer Reception after Reading

to reserve (or try just coming!):

212 755-6710 or info@mercantilelibr ary.org

Readers:

Barbara Bedway, Carly Sachs, Peter Selgin

Readings from our current Winter 2007 issue and our new Quarterly Online journal. Plus a sneak preview at Alimentum Editor Peter Selgin’s new book.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first book of poems, the steam sequence, won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House first book prize. Her poems have appeared in Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, Poem Memoir Story, No Tell Motel, Runes Review, Best American Poetry 2004 and were part of the inaugural Verse and Vision Project of the Cleveland RTA.

Barbara Bedway, whose fiction and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Flyway and Mizna, received a Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Death and Lebanon.” For several years her series of food-related essays—with recipes—appeared in Ohio Magazine.

Peter Selgin’s stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Essays 2006, Glimmer Train Stories, Missouri Review, The Sun, Boulevard, Our Roots are Deep in Passion (Other Press), and Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2003). He is author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, forthcoming from Writer’s Digest Books in February, 2007. He leads an annual writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy and conducts a writing workshop at The Mercantile Library.

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