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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM

The Hugo House is hosting the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Reading, in which Katharine Whitcomb reads from her award-winning chapbook, Lamp of Letters. Several people whose chapbooks were determined to not be quite as good as Whitcomb's will read from their work as well.

Phillip Close, a veteran teacher, reads at Third Place Books. Close Encounters of the Third Grade Kind is about a school year.

Over at Elliott Bay Book Company, Pastor Arthur Simon, who has written a book titled The Rising of Bread for the World: An Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger, will read tonight. Rick Steves will introduce Simon.

But the reading of the night is at Town Hall. T.R. Reid reads from The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. You better not be sick of hearing about health care, because the main event is just getting started in Washington D.C. It's September and it's time to start paying attention again.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.

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Reading with Katharine Whitcomb tonight at Hugo House are finalists Sharon Cumberland and Dennis Caswell. We wish we had enough money to publish three chapbooks a year, because Sharon's and Dennis's work grabbed us by our poetry-loving lapels and flung us like rag dolls. Come hear.

Thx for the listing, Paul.

P.S. To help us publish more books each year in the future, come help us build our endowment fund at The Great Art Party on Saturday, September 12: http://www.fbpevents.com/

Posted by Devon Musgrave on September 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM