Wines for a Passionate Evening of Poetry

LINDA DOVE, AUTHOR OF O DEAR DEER, BOOK READING EVENT

Winner of the first annual Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Contest

Altadena, California – Linda Dove, author of O Dear Deer, (Squall Publishing) and In Defense of Objects (Bear Star Press), will read from new and recently published work at Webster’s Fine Stationers, 2450 N. Lake Ave., Altadena, on October 15th at 6:00 PM. She will be joined by local poet Judith Terzi, author of Sharing Tabouli (Finishing Line Press) and The Road to Oxnard (Pudding House Press). The reading will be preceded by a wine-and-food pairing event, “Latin Wines for a Passionate Evening,” from 4:00-6:00 PM, and wines will continue to be poured throughout the poetry reading. The authors will be available after the event to greet audience members and sign copies of their books. The event is free and open to the public. For a complete schedule of upcoming readings, please visit www.lindadove.com.

“I’m so excited to be able to share my work at Webster’s, whose owners work tirelessly to support this community, and, in particular, our community of writers,” Dove said. “It’s the perfect local venue at which to introduce my new book because the poems are, in a sense, local too, in that they originated out of my time serving jury duty in downtown L.A.”

O Dear Deer, Dove’s most recent collection of poems, reimagines the poet’s experience as a juror in a Los Angeles courtroom to create a haunting, primeval theater in which what-is and what-might-have-been clash and veer off like dueling branches of the same trail. “In choosing, we kill chances,” Dove writes in “Peremptory Challenge,” an early poem in the collection; later in “Challenge for Cause” she asks her readers to consider how “At a crossroads,/ bodies and space/ collude, fanciful,/ lousy with branches.” Dove’s collection is a sometimes stark, sometimes whimsical, examination of the judgments that bind and crack lived experience.      

O Dear Deer, was selected for the first annual Eudaimonia Chapbook prize by Evan J. Peterson. Peterson selected the manuscript from more than one hundred entries for its “hypnotic landscape of image rhyme that is better than surreal…The branches, the antlers, the cracks, the river, the letters all become refrains of a chant she’s circling around the reader.”  Jen Tynes, author of The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press), reads in Dove’s collection “a deep and bare subversion of Frost’s ‘two roads’; these poems explore how we open ourselves to the offspring and the aftermath of all our movements and breaks.”

Linda Dove holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry and taught literature and creative writing for many years. Her full-length collection of poems is In Defense of Objects (Bear Star Press). Poems have been nominated recently for a Pushcart Prize and as a finalist for the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America.

O Dear Deer, (ISBN 978-0983396604) is now available through Amazon.com and Squall Publishing.com and at independent bookstores in Seattle, Washington, and in the Los Angeles metro area. Copies of the collection will be available for sale during the October 15th event.

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For more information, or to schedule an interview with Linda Dove, please contact the author at (626) 296-1913, email ciphercanyon@earthlink.net or visit www.lindadove.com.