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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Howdy from the road:



Real post later, with photos, but for now, a little reminder from Jen & Ada about next Monday's reading with me & Marie Ponsot!



"Don't miss next Monday 9/27 at 7:30 when

Pete's Big Salmon welcomes fan-tan-bu-loso poetesses

Marie Ponsot and Shanna Compton.

 

Marie Ponsot has published numerous works,

including SPRINGING and THE BIRD CATCHER

which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Among her awards are a grant from the

National Endowment for the Arts,

the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize,

and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language

Association. She teaches at Columbia University.



Shanna Compton is the editor of LIT

and the Associate Publisher of Soft Skull Press.

Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming

 in canwehaveourballback, Eye-Rhyme, McSweeney's,

Nerve, Gastronomica, Painted Bride Quarterly,

Pindeldyboz, CROWD, BOOG City, Skid Row

Penthouse, Good Foot, and elsewhere.



All readings are FREE.  Pete's Big Salmon

takes place at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg,

Brooklyn.  790 Lorimer btw Frost and Richardson.

take the G or the L.  Click here for a great map:

http://www.petescandystore.com/pete%27s_map.html



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