NEW BOOK PARTY + MOVIE PREMIERE
PLEASE COME AND CELEBRATE THE PUBLICATION OF
LEONARD GONTAREK’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS,
TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF MY POCKET, SHIVA,
AND THE PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE OF
14 PHOTOS FROM THE BRIDGE, THE AWARD-WINNING SHORT FILM
BASED ON HIS POEM, SPONSORED BY MOTIONPOEMS
AND THE WEISMAN ART MUSEUM
SIGNING & READING, WITH GUEST READERS
SEMI-FORMAL (OPTIONAL)
POPCORN WILL BE PROVIDED
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 6 PM
PENN BOOKSTORE
3601 WALNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA PA
(On the University of
Pennsylvania Campus)
TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF MY POCKET, SHIVA (HANGING LOOSE PRESS)
“This is a book of human hungers so exact in its recognitions it leaves a reader stricken with a sense not just of how detailed our desires are, but how rare it is to have them articulated in ways yet unspoken. 'In my poor country, we poured sugar/ on everything to not notice our hunger,' Leonard Gontarek writes, but where that coat of sweetening fails, this poet stays to record what is still needed, what is still hungry, what is still so very, and beautifully, human.”
—Katie Ford, author of Blood Lyrics and Colosseum
PLEASE COME AND CELEBRATE THE PUBLICATION OF
LEONARD GONTAREK’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS,
TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF MY POCKET, SHIVA,
AND THE PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE OF
14 PHOTOS FROM THE BRIDGE, THE AWARD-WINNING SHORT FILM
BASED ON HIS POEM, SPONSORED BY MOTIONPOEMS
AND THE WEISMAN ART MUSEUM
SIGNING & READING, WITH GUEST READERS
SEMI-FORMAL (OPTIONAL)
POPCORN WILL BE PROVIDED
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 6 PM
PENN BOOKSTORE
3601 WALNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA PA
(On the University of
Pennsylvania Campus)
TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF MY POCKET, SHIVA (HANGING LOOSE PRESS)
“This is a book of human hungers so exact in its recognitions it leaves a reader stricken with a sense not just of how detailed our desires are, but how rare it is to have them articulated in ways yet unspoken. 'In my poor country, we poured sugar/ on everything to not notice our hunger,' Leonard Gontarek writes, but where that coat of sweetening fails, this poet stays to record what is still needed, what is still hungry, what is still so very, and beautifully, human.”
—Katie Ford, author of Blood Lyrics and Colosseum
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