Poetry Reading @ Avol's Bookstore

Don't miss Lauren Shapiro and Brent Goodman this Saturday @ 7pm at Avol's Bookstore.

I hear there may be large boxing robots in attendance.

Lauren Shapiro received her BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Before moving to Iowa, she worked for four years as an acquisitions editor at the Yale University Press. Her poems have appeared in Pool, Passages North, Forklift, Ohio, Drunken Boat and 32 Poems, among other places. Lauren has translated poetry from Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese and Arabic into English. Currently, she teaches at Herzing University in Madison, WI.

Brent Goodman's debut poetry collection, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, is just out from Black Lawrence Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Trees are the Slowest Rivers (Sarasota Poetry Theater Press), and Wrong Horoscope (Thorngate Road Press), which won the 1999 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award. His poems appear widely.