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A Damn Fine Reading! And Hot!

Celebrate the launch of APRIL Writer-in-Residence Shya Scanlon’s new book, The Guild of St. Cooper. Featuring readings from Matthew Simmons and Mary Miller, as well as music from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Doors at 7:30 p.m., reading starts at 8. The event is $5 cash at the door.

Word Works: Luis Alberto Urrea on Understory

The understory is the engine room of successful prose. It is the sweat lodge and the haunted house and the shadowland. It is the invisible narrative, the indirect means of telling a story. Bad writing teachers call it imagery—but imagery is merely the first step down under. Urrea will explain understory as a unique writing

Lament for the Makers

We lost a great number of poets in 2014. At this reading, you'll hear ten local poets read work from ten poets who passed last year. The lineup: Zubair Ahmed reading Mark Strand  Bill Carty reading Amiri Baraka Kevin Craft reading Philip Levine Rebecca Hoogs reading Maxine Kumin Ed Skoog reading Allen Grossman Tree Swenson reading Galway