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A Mouth in California

In new titles on November 5, 2009 at 12:33 pm

.Now Available: Graham Foust, A Mouth in California

ISBN 978-0-9819520-1-7 $14.95

A Mouth in California, Foust’s fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust creates a unique idiom of tragicomic pratfalls, a ballet of falling down. Yet the elasticity of Foust’s language repels the stiff-necked adversaries of thought: “what’s the wrong way to break / that brick of truth back into music?”

Michael O’Brien in Virginia

In readings on November 3, 2009 at 1:52 am

Michael O’Brien will be poet-in-residence at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia this month. His most recent volume is Sleeping and Waking (Flood Editions, 2007).

Public Readings:

Mon. 11/16, 7:00 pm, Poetry Reading, Hofheimer Theatre, VWC Campus

Tues. 11/17, 11-11:50 am, Poetry Reading, Pierce Hospitality Suite, VWC Campus

Sponsored by the Wesleyan Activities Council and the English Department

Free and open to the public

Moxley in Chicago

In readings on October 12, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Jennifer Moxley will be reading from Clampdown at the University of Chicago this week:

Thursday, October 15, 4:30 PM: Reading

Friday, October 16, 1:00 PM: Talk

Both events: Social Sciences Tea Room

For more information, see the Poem Present webpage.