READING & INTERVIEW SERIES
PRESENTS A Third-Tuesday Event:
A.V. Christie
Signing & Reading
from her new chapbook:
THE WONDERS
With Special Guest Stars:
Eleanor Wilner, Taije Silverman,
Leonard Gontarek, Natalie Anderson
& Charles Carr
TUESDAY, March 17, 7 PM
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
A.V. Christie is the author of Nine Skies, which won the National Poetry Series, and The Housing, winner of the McGovern Prize and THE WONDERS, a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection by Seven Kitchens Press.
Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Commonweal, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Witness, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse and Ploughshares, among other journals. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and from the Pennsylvania and Maryland State Arts Councils and has been visiting writer at Villanova and LaSalle Universities, Bryn Mawr College, Goucher College, the University of Maryland, and Penn State Abington. She teaches private workshops and has been a Poet-in-the-Schools for many years.
Foreword
I was conceived in the cruelest month
in whatever spring California could muster.
A little rain—with some more likely.
And the buckeyes were they yet on the ground?
Damn my father’s smooth stone eyes,
other prevailing enticements and what Eliot called
the female stench. Damn the oaks,
their histrionics, struggling in the fog.
Spiderwebs lay in the grass, misted
and looking like misspent galaxies.
I cry into and out of this moment.
Pound told Eliot: strike this and this.
What was weak got dropped, and the poem
stood stronger without it.
A.V. Christie / Source: Poetry (October 2009).
Coming Up, For Poetry Month
Tuesday, April 21, 7 PM,
Reading & Interview:
Leslie Shinn, author of Inside Spiders
Read about her work here:
http://apiarymagazine.com/
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