Join us Sunday, October 20th at 7:00 p.m. for a poetry reading with Ollie Schminkey and Zach Goldberg of poems from their recent releases Where I Dry the Flowers and I'd Rather Be Destroyed, both out through Button Press. Plus local author Beatrice Timken reading from her collection Regression Songs. through Bottlecap Press.
Praise for the Ollie Schminkey:
“These poems will help you love the people in your life better.
Ollie is the kind of writer the world needs right now.”
Andrea Gibson, author of Pansy, Lord of the
Butterflies, and You Better Be Lightning
“I am thankful for a book like this one, which is unafraid to
return to a site of ache and continue in attempts to illuminate it
-- with some joy, with some gratitude, and without shame.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, author of The Crown Ain’t
Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster
Praise for Zach Goldberg:
“With deft clarity of voice and vision, Goldberg guides us through the
failures and frailty of the body set against the unshakable fact of the
human spirit.”
sam sax, author of PIG, Bury It, and Madness
“Zach Goldberg writes like an inventor. Making the page his playground,
his imaginative approaches to craft are thrilling.”
Andrea Gibson, author of Pansy, Lord of the
Butterflies, and You Better Be Lightning
