Tuesday, September 08, 2009

American Hybrid @ Bridge Street 9/13, 7 pm



THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Sunday, September 13th, 7 pm

AMERICAN HYBRID: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY
OF NEW POETRY

JOHN TAGGART
COLE SWENSEN
ROD SMITH
&
MARK MCMORRIS

Mark McMorris is the author of Cafe at Light, The Blaze of Poui, The Black Reeds, and Moth-Wings. His book Entrepot will be available from Coffee House Press in February 2010. He teaches at Georgetown University.

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, The Good House, Protective Immediacy, and others. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.

Cole Swensen teaches poetry in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her books include Ours, Goest, Such Rich Hour, Oh, Try, and Noon. She translates poetry from French and lives part-time in Paris.

John Taggart is the author of There are Birds, Crosses: Poems 1992-1998, Standing Wave, Pastorelles, When the Saints, Loop, and several others. His Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics was published by The University of Alabama Press in 1994. He lives in south central Pennsylvania.

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 September 20th, 3 pm
Rob Fitterman & Nada Gordon
In Your Ear @ DCAC

Sunday October 4th, 7 pm
Eileen Myles & Hoa Nguyen
@ Bridge Street Books






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