A reminder …

THE GREEN LINE CAFE
READING & INTERVIEW SERIES
PRESENTS:

CHARLOTTE BOULAY
author of Foxes on the Trampoline

&

YOLANDA WISHER
author of Monk Eats an Afro

Reading & Interview

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 7 PM

HOSTED BY
LEONARD GONTAREK & LILLIAN DUNN

THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS

(Please note the address, there are
  other Green Line Café locations.)
        greenlinecafe.com

     This Event Is Free


Yolanda Wisher was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia and raised in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where she was named the first poet laureate at age 23. A Cave Canem graduate, she received an M.A. in Creative Writing/English from Temple University. Wisher co-edited the international anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with Sonia Sanchez in 2013. In 2014, she was named a Founding Cultural Agent for the US Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC). Her first book of poems, Monk Eats an Afro , was published this year by Hanging Loose Press. She lives in Germantown with her husband Mark Palacio, a doublebassist, and her son Thelonious.





Charlotte Boulay grew up in the Boston area and attended St. Lawrence University. She earned her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she taught composition and creative writing for five years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The Boston Review, and Crazyhorse, among other journals. Foxes on the Trampoline is her first book, and was published in April 2014 by Ecco Press/HarperCollins. She lives with her husband in Philadelphia.