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READING: Poetry and Pints
June 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm MDT
READING
POETRY AND PINTS
Tuesday, June 10th | 6:30pm
at Oldspeak: 3640 W Chinden Blvd in Garden City
21+
Special Event: Poetry and Pints
Surel’s Place is partnering with The Lit Room and gaining special access to Oldspeak on Tuesday, June 10th at 6:30pm for a private poetry reading from our next artist-in-residence Ivy Raff. Cozy up with a pint of Alliteration Beer (or other NA offerings) and absorb Ivy’s readings from both published and unpublished work in English and Spanish.
Ivy will be reading from her book Rooted and Reduced to Dust published just last year from Finish Line Press. The book is included in some of the donation levels and Ivy will be available to sign them at the reading. She will also read from What Remains / Que queda, a bilingual English/Spanish collection that won the Alberola International Poetry Prize with publication pending. The reading will be followed by a discussion led by The Lit Room’s Cristina Houston.
Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
So begins Ivy Raff‘s debut poetry chapbook, which plumbs the depths of movement, of growth: from one generation to the next, from Eastern Europe across America, from sickness to health. With braided fearlessness and vulnerability, Raff bridges the past with the heartbreaking tenderness of today.
Observant, challenging, sensuous, glowing with an undercarriage of mystique, Raff’s poems are torsos that twist to embrace the universe. Every muscled line is taut, knowing its desire and how to hold what it loves in its arms.
–Jimmy Santiago Baca, American Book Award-winning author of Martin and Meditations on the South Valley
This programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
