2/19: Carol Connolly hosts "Readings by Writers"

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

7:30pm to 9:30pm

St. Paul Poet Laureate Carol Connolly hosts Readings by Writers every third Tuesday, presented by S.A.S.E. at Intermedia Arts.

Free and open to the public! S.A.S.E. members and non-members are invited for dinner at 5pm (optional, reservations required). Reading 7:30pm. Bar is open before, during, and after the reading.

TWO FEATURED READERS:

Poet Susan Deborah King, whose third book of poems, One Breasted Woman, is from Holy Cow! Press, and follows her Coven and Tabernacle: Poems of an Island. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota, S.A.S.E. and The Loft, and is a former Presbyterian minister, a psychotherapist, and founder of the enormously well-received Literary Witnesses Reading Series at Plymouth Congregational Church.

DO YOU KNOW…? Every 1.9 minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and every 13 minutes someone dies from it. “Into this new age,” Judith Guest says, “when more of us are learning to live with the epidemic of cancer in our world, comes a moving and musical collection of poetry that will, I am sure, save lives.”

Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller, whose fifth book of poems, The Resurrection Trade, is from Graywolf Press. The book is inspired by the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medical illustrations as well as the business end of trafficking in corpses, which, in turn, made possible the art of anatomy. Her meticulous research, here and abroad, prefaced her crafting of the fine poems in this well-received collection that yields truths about the objectification and misunderstanding of women’s bodies throughout history.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser calls these poems “delightfully eclectic, learned and wise.” This new book follows Miller’s Eat Quite Everything You See, also from Graywolf, and Yesterday Had a Man In It, Ungodliness and Staying Up for Love, all from Carnegie Mellon Press. Widely published in literary magazines and journals, Miller is a professor of English at the University of St. Thomas.

Readers will have their books available for purchase and will sign books upon request.

For more information call 612- 871-2815 or visit www.intermediaarts.org. Some University Club reading sites are handicapped accessible. Some are not. Inquire at 651-222-1751 or www.universityclubofstpaul.com.