Ken Rumble's Desert City Reading Series kicks ass! Here's the annoucement from Mr. Rumble:
Cole Swensen & Chris Vitiello This Saturday, February 19th
Please spread far and wide.........
Who: Cole Swensen, Finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in Poetry for her book Goest, author of 9 other collections of poetry, translator of some of the best of contemporary French poetry, a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, also famous for building a life-size model of Big Ben out of America Online CDs.
Who: Chris Vitiello, author of Nouns Swarm a Verb, survivor of the Lucipo roadshow, rumored to be the head of a theatre group whose existence is itself rumored to be a rumor.
What: Desert City Poetry Series, when you care to hear the very best.
When: This Saturday, February 19th, 8:00pm, 2005.
Where: Internationalist Books, 405 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Why: "I've / always / wanted / said the painter // and so he did" "Am I supposed to write that it rained? // One, two, three, four, five, six // What rained?"
See you there.......
Next Month Two Readings:
March 19th: Tara Rebele & Brian Henry
March 26th: Kent Johnson & Patrick Herron
*Internationalist Books
*Cole Swensen
*Chris Vitiello
Contact the DCPS: Ken Rumble, director:
rumblek at bellsouth dot net