Aaron Belz at Bookshop West Portal
Aaron Belz will be reading from his new book Lovely, Raspberry at the Bookshop West Portal on Tuesday with Denise Newman.
Here is what Bookshop has to say about those two:
Aaron gave me my first reading back when he was curating the Observable Reading Series in St. Louis. He's also responsible for many other friendships.
Tuesday, October 12 at 7 PM @ Bookshop West Portal
Here is what Bookshop has to say about those two:
Denise Newman is a San Francisco poet and translator whose two previous collections are Wild Goods and Human Forest. Her latest book, The New Make Believe, is, according to poet Norman Fischer, "more haunting than ever, and as needful of contemplation."
Newman, who teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and Mills College, is a staff editor at Five Fingers Review, and has been a Djerassi Resident Artist. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen was published in 2000 by The Harvill Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Denver Quarterly, Volt, apex of the M, New American Writing, and ZYZZYVA. For the past decade, she has been collaborating with composers, providing lyrics for choral works.
Aaron Belz, author of The Bird Hoverer, will read from his masterfully offbeat new collection, Lovely, Raspberry. Called “gravely hilarious,” Belz writes with a deadpan whimsy that fronts mischievously for keen cultural insights in poems like “You Bore Me,” “Asking Al Gore About the Muse,” and “Thirty Illegal Moves in the Cloud-Shape Game.”
Dr. Belz, who is Assistant Professor of English at Providence Christian College, earned his doctorate in English from Saint Louis University, where he specialized in comedy and modern American poetry.
"Reading Aaron Belz is like dreaming of a summer vacation and then taking it." — John Ashbery
Aaron gave me my first reading back when he was curating the Observable Reading Series in St. Louis. He's also responsible for many other friendships.
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