Friday May 2, 2008 at 6:30 pm. The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th St., NYC. (btw. 5th and Madison). FREE.
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction is dedicated to celebrating and supporting the creation and enjoyment of the art of fiction. This event is sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Introduction by Martin Riker with Dalkey Archive Press and Ram Devineni with Rattapallax. To RSVP: [log in to unmask] or 212-755-6710
James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering "I", The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices.
Flavia Rocha is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital, República, Valor Econômico and Bravo!, and was a contributor for other publications, including MTV magazine, Vogue and Sabor. She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2005.
Peter Selgin's first book of short stories, "Drowning Lessons" won this year's Flannery O'Connor Award and will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the Fall of 2008. His children's book, "S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), was a Scholastic Book Club selection and won the Lemme Award for Best Children's Book, 2000. In addition, he is an award winning fiction writer, play-writer, and illustrator with work appearing in the "New Yorker," "Time-Out New York", "Poets & Writers," "The Wall Street Journal", and many other publications.
Meredith Brosnan was born in Dublin, but lives in New York City since 1984. His work has appeared in "The Williamsburgh Bugle," "Sound Collector Audio Review," "the Brooklyn Rail" and "YETI." "Mr. Dynamite," a novel, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2004.
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