Readings This Week!

I've just heard about a couple poetry readings that sound really solid.

The first reading is at Avol's Books (315 Gorham St.) this Sunday, November 9th, at 2:00pm.

The featured readers are Katy Lederer, author of The Heaven Sent Leaf, and Kazim Ali, author of The Fortieth Day, and one of the founding editors of Nightboat Books.

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year. Her second poetry book, The Heaven-Sent Leaf is just out from BOA Editions.

Kazim Ali is is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books), named one of "The Best Books of 2005" by Chronogram magazine.


Then on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 4:30 pm, Ed Pavlic, a former UW student who is currently Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, will read in 7191 Helen C. White Hall.


Ed's most recent book, Winners Have Yet To Be Announced, is a response to the life and art of the African American singer, composer and pianist Donny Hathaway. His previous books of poems are Labors Lost Left Unfinished and Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue, which was selected by Adrienne Rich for the American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize. He has also published a scholarly work, Crossroads Modernism, on African American literary culture.