52nd City

Brett won't be there this week, but...

Hey everyone—hope you can come out—we'll have the current issue of 52nd City and ALL BACK ISSUES for sale. An added bonus: the poets will be great. They are young and have a young sensibility (read: pop, street-smart). -A

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Observable Readings presents
Andrew Zawacki, Kristy Odelius, and Simone Muench
Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 8PM
Schlafly Bottleworks, Maplewood MO

Andrew Zawacki is the author of two books of poetry—Anabranch and By Reason of Breakings (winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series)—as well as editor of the anthology Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995. His long poem 'Georgia' won the 1913 Prize and is due from Katalanché Press. He is coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews.

Kristy Odelius lives in Chicago, where she teaches creative writing and literature at North Park University. She is a co-editor and co-founder of Near South, a Chicago-based journal of innovative writing. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Chicago Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Diagram and her first book, Strange Trades, will be published in 2008 by Shearsman Books (UK).

Simone Muench's second book Lampblack & Ash received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize (Sarabande, 2005). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press) and Sonoluminescence (with Bill Allegrezza, Dusie Press). She has poems appearing in Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LUNA and others. She directs the Writing Program at Lewis University, serves on the board for Switchback Books, and is an editor for Sharkforum.

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