JOSEPH ZACCARDI AND PEG ALFORD PURSELL READ AT MINE GALLERY IN FAIRFAX, CA

MINE gallery in Fairfax continues with its poetry and prose reading series. On the last Sunday of every month MINE gallery invites one poet and one prose writer to read for about 20 minutes each. This month we will present Joseph Zaccardi, Marin’s Poet Laureate, who will be reading selected poetry from his recent book Gradations of Light (Bark for Me Publications 2013), and Peg Alford Pursell, State Fiction Award winner, who will be reading from a selection of her prose.

Joseph Zaccardi’s publications include Vents (Pancake Press 2005), Render (Poetic Matrix Press 2009), and The Nine Gradations of Light (Bark for Me Publications 2013). In 2003 he received an Individual Artist Grant from the Marin Arts Council, and in 2010 thru 2012 was editor of the Marin Poetry Center Anthology. He was appointed poet Laureate of Marin County, CA in 2013 for a two-year term. Since 1987 he has lived in Fairfax, tossing seeds from an imaginary apple tree.

Peg Alford Pursell’s fiction has received awards such as The State Fiction Award (S.C.), S.C. Academy of Authors Fiction Fellowship, and the American Fiction Award Finalist. Her short story collection was a short-list finalist for the

Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. New stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Staccato Fiction, Emprise Review, Joyland Magazine, The Quotable, and others. Her story a 90-word, one-sentence story "Fragmentation" is the title story of the Burrow Press Anthology (2011) Fragmentation and Other Stories. Her story "Project" published in

Annalemma Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Pursell is co-founder and co-director of StoryFarm, a creative nonfiction cooperative in SF, she is a fiction editor of the lit journal Prick of the Spindle, the 2013 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Editor and serves on the advisory board of Litquake.