Tomorrow evening …

For POETRY MONTH

THE GREEN LINE CAFE
POETRY SERIES
PRESENTS:

J. SCOTT BROWNLEE
author of Requiem for Ignition Cap

                &

ELEANOR STANFORD
author of Bartram’s Garden


Reading & Interview

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016, 7 PM



HOSTED BY
LEONARD GONTAREK

45TH & LOCUST STREETS,
Philadelphia, PA

http://greenlinecafe.com/


This Event Is Free


Eleanor Stanford is the author of two books of poetry, Bartram's Garden and The Book of Sleep, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Kenyon Review, and many others. She is a 2014/2016 Fulbright fellow to Brazil, where she is researching and writing about traditional midwifery.



J. Scott Brownlee is a poet from Llano, Texas. His work appears widely and includes the chapbooks Highway or Belief, which won the 2013 Button Poetry Prize, Ascension, which won the 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Prize, and On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County, which won the 2015 Tree Light Books Prize. His first full-length collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and selected by C. Dale Young as the winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. Brownlee is a founding member of The Localists, a literary collective that emphasizes place-based writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working class. He teaches for Brooklyn Poets as a core faculty member and is a former Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at NYU, where he earned his MFA. Brownlee currently lives in Philadelphia.


Upcoming events:

The Philadelphia
Poetry Festival
Sunday, April 24, 1-4 PM
at The Rotunda