TONIGHT: Jesse Lee Kercheval & Alison Townsend read @ Borders

What a handsome cover!

Jesse Lee Kercheval will be reading with Alison Townsend at 7:00pm tonight at Borders West, 375o University Ave., Madison.

Jesse Lee will be reading from her poetry collection Cinema Muto, and Alison will be reading from her poetry book Persephone in America. Both are Crab Orchard Open Award Series winners and have just been published in the Crab Orchard Poetry Series by Southern Illinois University Press.

I also hear there'll be cake served afterwards. Yum! In case you can't make it this evening, these two will rock the house Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the award-winning author of The Alice Stories and Space: a Memoir. She is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Alison Townsend is an associate professor of English at UW-Whitewater.