Third Friday Features

Current Title:
chains, by derek beaulieu

Friday May 16th
Excuse Me, Mixed Media and Photography
by Frances Carr
Exhibit Reception
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.
Ages: All
Cost: FREE, donations appreciated for refreshments

 
May 16th 8:30 p.m.
Featured Reader Heather Thomas
followed by Open Mic

“Heather Thomas’s Blue Ruby is a beauty, composed by a fearlessly
compassionate intelligence: &lsquot;everything exists because/ something
else does.’ Primarily, it’s poems in flexible, driving, sensuous
two- and three-line stanzas (also a new kind of urgent pantoum). ‘I
write with my eyes.’ But Thomas joins a growing band who can’t help
but unite the personal and political. She demonstrates that the
'lsquo;pearl-of-great-price’ is anyone, anywhere, self or other one. The
poems hurt but have a carved, litup surface, red and blue and many
other colors.”—Alice Notley

A book signing will follow the reading. Arrive early to sign
up for the open mic portion of the evening, and to check out the art.