Avid Bookshop presents Kathy Fagan and Peter Mishler for the April installment of the Avid Poetry Series. This event will take place on Friday, April 26, 2019, from 6:30-7:30pm at our Prince Avenue location and is free and open to the public. We encourage you to purchase copies of their books and get them signed by the authors!
Ed Pavlić will read from and discuss Another Kind of Madness. A Q&A and signing will follow the reading.
Abigail DeWitt (News of Our Loved Ones) and Ed Pavlić (Another Kind of Madness) discuss their far-reaching fiction, featuring characters faced with global and personal turbulence. Book sales and signing will follow.
Charles Coe, whose latest book is Memento Mori, reads with Don Bogen, author most recently of Immediate Song.
Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Arnold Arboretum Director William “Ned” Friedman will join voices in this guided conversation about trees. Melding readings with discussion; drawing on mystery, lore, and science; they will convey the challenges and rewards of trying to represent non-humans—speaking both for and as the trees
Join the English Department on March 19th at 6:30 PM in the TCU Bookstore for the second Live Oak Reading of the semester, featuring Alex Lemon (Another Last Day, 2019) and Margaret Fleming. Admission is free, and all are welcome!
We are pleased to announce that judge Mark Doty has selected Brooke Matson’s collection In Accelerated Silence as winner of the next Jake Adam York Prize, presented in partnership by Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions. Matson will receive $2,000 and her collection will be published by Milkweed in February 2020.
Brooke Matson is a poet, book artist, and the 2016 recipient of the Artist Trust GAP award and Centrum residency. Her first collection of poems, The Moons, was published by Blue Begonia Press in 2012; her second, In Accelerated Silence, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2020.
Ed Pavlić reads from and discusses his new novel, Another Kind of Madness, and appears in conversation with Adam McGee, Boston Review editor.
Ed Pavlić (Another Kind of Madness) and Abigail DeWitt (News of Our Loved Ones) discuss their far-reaching fiction, featuring characters faced with global and personal turbulence. Book sales and signing will follow.
