An afternoon of great poetry presented in collaboration with the Plan 99 Reading Series featuring: Anita Lahey whose second collection, Spinning Side Kick, is a hard-knuckled look at the other half. These lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty about men, love, and relationships; David Groulx, whose latest collection, A Difficult Beauty, is as cutting and brilliant as glass shards, offering glimpses of the anger, pain and lost beauties of his ancestors; and Chris Jennings, whose long-awaited debut Occupations contains poems linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning, making the most ordinary things touchstones and reliquaries of other lives.
Lahey’s poems startle us with their intricate beauty and the complexity of their technique.
An afternoon of great poetry presented in collaboration with the Plan 99 Reading Series featuring: Anita Lahey whose second collection, Spinning Side Kick, is a hard-knuckled look at the other half. These lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty about men, love, and relationships; David Groulx, whose latest collection, A Difficult Beauty, is as cutting and brilliant as glass shards, offering glimpses of the anger, pain and lost beauties of his ancestors; and Chris Jennings, whose long-awaited debut Occupations contains poems linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning, making the most ordinary things touchstones and reliquaries of other lives.
