What:
Avid Poetry Series' final fall installment is coming up on Dec. 1. At 7:00 pm, within/out or through the doors and windows of Avid Bookshop (493 Prince Ave), you may attend a reading by two of Atlanta's finest poets, Bruce Covey and Gina Myers! Light refreshments will be provided, but in truth our fine poets will do the bulk of the refreshing, among other actions and expressions (impressions? perhaps). Come out to the bookstore for a stimulating Thursday evening of poetry and rich-or-po'-folk fun, for as usual it's free and open to the public, so bring everyone you know!
The son of two chemists, poet and editor Bruce Covey was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University, where he earned an MA in English literature. Influenced by John Ashbery and Ron Padgett, Covey’s poems often utilize narrative and sequence, sometimes engaging found text, with both playfulness and urgency. Reviewing Glass Is Really a Liquid for the Rumpus, Weston Cutter noted that Covey’s poems “make sense, fundamentally, but they’ve got a strange, skittering-away sense to them, a resistance to being pinned down.”
Covey is the author of several collections of poetry, including Glass Is Really a Liquid (2010), Elapsing Speedway Organism (2006), and The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires (1992). The editor of the online poetry journal Coconut and its sister press, Coconut Books, Covey has taught at the Atlanta College of Art and Emory University, where he also serves as senior director of technical services for campus life. He lives in Atlanta.
Gina Myers is the author of A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009) and several chapbooks, including False Spring (forthcoming from Spooky Girlfriend Press). She lives in Atlanta, GA where she makes books for Lame House Press.
Check out Gina's blog at http://asaddayforsadbirds.blogspot.com/
Where:
Avid Bookshop
493 Prince Avenue. Athens, Ga.
706-352-2060
When:
Thursday, December 2, 2011
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
