Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Reading in New Haven, CT with Jenny Knox & Shanna Compton!

So, I secretly call this our "Reading at Yale." Is that okay? I feel okay with that.

Us ladies will be taking the train. I do believe that calls for some "wine, wine on the train.." (sung to the tune of Home on the Range).

Tuesday, September 19 2006

7:00pm

Jennifer L. Knox, Shanna Compton & Ada Limon read in New Haven, CT!

Tuesday, September 19 at 7:00 PM in New Haven!


Jennifer L. Knox, Shanna Compton & Ada Limón

The Ordinary Evening Reading Series
Hosted by Michael Schiavo & Ann Leamon
Anchor Bar
272 College Street
New Haven, CT

Series schedule: ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/

Jennifer L. Knox is a three-time contributor to The Best American Poetry series, as well as the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. Her first book of poems, A Gringo Like Me, is available from Soft Skull Press.

Shanna Compton is not quite as tall as Jennifer L. Knox but she is the author of Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005) and the editor of GAMERS: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels (Soft Skull, 2004). Her poems have recently appeared in Spork, the Tiny, Court Green, and the anthologies The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Digerati, and The Best American Poetry 2005. Please visit her online at www.shannacompton.com.

Ada Limon is originally from Sonoma, California. Her first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book This Big Fake World was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize and is due out in the fall. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

3 comments:

shanna said...

yippee! let's make a chapbook.

Limonada said...

What's our challenge poem going to be?

shanna said...

i don't know. we should decide soon tho. are you coming out on friday?