THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents
Sunday, May 10th, at 7 PM
BEN LERNER
&
CHRIS NEALON
Please join us for a reading to celebrate Chis Nealon's new book Plummet! O & this guy Ben Lerner's pretty damn great too!
Chris Nealon is the author of two books of poems: Plummet (just out from Edge Books) and The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004), as well as Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (Duke UP, 2001). He is currently completing a book of criticism called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Spectacle in the American Century. He lives in Washington, DC and is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Ben Lerner's first book, The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon, 2004), was a Lannan Literary Selection and was named one of the year's best books of poetry by Library Journal. Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon, 2006) was a finalist for the National Book Award. A former Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Lerner co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts. He recently joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
& if you can't make the reading you can still get your copy of Plummet here: http://www.aerialedge.com/ChrisNealonPlummet.htm
BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC
ph 202 965 5200
Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.
UPCOMING READINGS:
Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center
Sunday, June 7, 7:00 pm
Jane Sprague & Diane Ward
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, June 9, 8:00 pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 14, 7:00 pm
Bill Berkson
@ Bridge Street Books
