Thursday, April 26, 2007
Vibe Coffee House
Cedar Falls
Book Release Reading by
Paul Hedeen
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
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Signup for the open mic begins @ 7 p.m. on a first come, first served basis. Limited slots are available, so readers are encouraged to sign up early and read your best five minutes of poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction. Singer-songwriters are also welcome. The open mic begins at 7:30 p.m. The featured reader takes the stage between 8:00 and 8:30 (depending on how many open mic readers there are). After the reading, there will be a brief question and answer session. The Final Thursday Reading Series will return at the end of August for a seventh season.
Paul M. Hedeen is the author of the recently published novel, The Knowledge Tree (Sanbun Publishers), and the co-editor of Unrelenting Readers: the New Poet-critics (Story Line Press). He is an award-winning professor and writer (poetry and fiction) who teaches literature, film, and writing at Wartburg College. His critical and creative writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including North American Review, Confrontation, Rosebud, Philosophy and Literature, The Maine Scholar, Modern Fiction Studies, Language and Style, The Great Lakes Review, and the Southwest Review. |
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Read Work by Past Featured Readers
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Excerpt from The Knowledge Tree Snow began to fall at midday, Mittag in the lingo. Dr. Friedrich Kaspar (aka “Freddy K” or “the K-man”) took his lunch at a Chinese restaurant near his office. The location, not the food, drew him to the place, for “The Peking Man” was on the first floor of an apartment complex that now occupied the site of Adolf Hitler’s Reich’s Chancellery. Deep beneath a children’s courtyard-playground just one hundred meters away, like a radiated tumor, lay the ravaged mass of the Fuehrer bunker. As many knew but no marker acknowledged, it was there, just 55 years ago, that the Dr. Frankenstein who enlivened the Nazi monster and his pretty bride Eva Braun held on, as promised, until 5 minutes past midnight, making what a nostalgic American would call a “last stand.”
The graying Kaspar had no direct experience of this time. He was born in 1949, as the lens of evil was racking from Nazis to Commies and from bullets to A-bombs. In his mid-western hometown, nestled among corn and beans, the only boom was babies. Kaspar’s long experience with American growth and green and gravidity made battlefield Berlin even more alarming and fascinating. Why had Professor Kaspar stayed into the dead of winter? He would answer that he lingered out of want—that after long seasons of plenty as a professor of European history and several years of sad-eyed disappointment, he needed a shock. Somehow, he knew if he looked for one in Berlin, at his century’s ground-zero, he’d find it.
Now Available from Final Thursday Press
Poetry by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
Poetry by Jonathan Stull
Poetry by Vince Gotera ***Winner of the 2004 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry***
Poetry by Ahkos
Microfiction by Jim O'Loughlin
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| updated April 6, 2007 by Jim O'Loughlin |
Vibe
is located at 909 W. 23rd St. in Cedar Falls on the second floor of
Bought again Books.