| September 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Poets Joan Gelfand, RD Armstrong (aka Raindog), John Harris, and Alan Jude Moore read.
A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams, Joan Gelfand’s second collection of poetry is a richly layered collection that speaks to environmental destruction, economic finagling, rampant globalization as well as nature, friends and family, and the love that sustains us. California Poet Laureate Al Young wrote. ”…Joan Gelfand’s poems vibrate, shudder or take flight, roaring and purring to safe and not so safe landings in the heart, in the gut. Readers, beware. This is powerful stuff.” www.joangelfand.com.
RD Armstrong aka Raindog is published in nearly 300 journals, magazines, anthologies and E-zines, Raindog has four books out in 2008: Fire and Rain Vols. 1 & 2 (Selected Poems – 1993-2007); On/Off the Beaten Path (Road Poems) and El Pagano (Short Stories). For the past 14 years, RD Armstrong aka Raindog has operated the Lummox Press which publishes the Little Red Bookseries (59 titles to date.) The most recent book is The Long Way Home – the Best of the Little Red Book series 1998-2008 edited by RD Armstrong. Recently Lummox Press published New and Selected Poems by John Yamrus (2008), and The Riddle of the Wooden Gun by Todd Moore (2009). www.lummoxpress.com.
Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin. His two collections of poetry, Black State Cars (2004) and Lost Republics (2008) are published by Salmon Poetry. A third collection, Strasbourg, will be published by Salmon in 2010. His work is widely published, including in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Iota (UK) and Kestrel (USA). He has been short-listed twice for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing for his short stories. His work has also been published in Italian and Russian. In 2009, new poems will be out in the journals PIng Pong (USA) and Mimesis (UK). Alan Jude Moore will also be doing a number of readings in the USA in the autumn.