“Voices Carry” Poetry Reading at Decatur Library Next Saturday, Oct 26th
Decatur Metro | October 18, 2013
Collin sends in this press release…
The 9th annual Voices Carry reading will be held Saturday, October 26, at 3 p.m. at the Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St. The featured poets are Cecilia Woloch, Jessie Carty, Helen Losse and Erica Wright. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley will host. The reading is presented by Poetry Atlanta and Georgia Center for the Book. The event is free and open to the public and books will be available for sale. For directions and more information, visit www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Featured Poets
Cecilia Woloch is the author of the poetry collections Sacrifice, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, Late and Carpathia. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Woloch teaches at the University of Southern California as well as hosting workshops around the world, including the annual Paris Poetry Workshop.
Jessie Carty is the author of the poetry collections An Amateur Marriage, Paper House, Fat Girl and the newly-published Morph from Sibling Rivalry Press. She is the founding editor of Referential Magazine.
Helen Losse is poetry editor emeritus of Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and the author of the poetry collections Mansion of Memory, Seriously Dangerous, Better With Friends and Gathering the Broken Pieces.
Erica Wright is the author of Instructions for Killing the Jackal and the chapbook Silt. Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon, will be published next year by Pegasus Books. She is the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine.
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Pretty quiet here tonight
FFAF has all the action
Government shutdown, politics a fright
Maybe a little poetry will make things right.
Chubby people at the mirror?
Can’t look even at night.
And Southerners deserve better
Than the KKK, now gone from sight.
Erica Badu or Wright
So confusing, who’s right?
But Ceclia Woloch?
Worth it all
Mama and her Bible
Lord, can I ever stand
that tall?
What???
What? You don’t read poetry!
Jessie Carty- wrote a poem about fat people in front of a mirror; #2 in line
Helen Losse- Wrote a poem about black boys and the KKK; #3
Erica Wright- I goggled Erica Wright and all I got was Erika Badu;#4
Cecilia Woloch-” Mother and the Bible on the Pillow” or something like that. The good looking red head in front.
BTW- Waiting for and autograph from Lemony Snicket. Where the real action is Monday evening.
“What? You don’t read poetry!”
Poetry’s is great. (Just)Don’t know those authors to date.