Thursday, September
28,
2006
Vibe Coffee House, Cedar Falls
Book Release Reading by
Rebecca Dunham
Upcoming:
Patrick Irelan on Wed.,
Oct. 25
Grant Tracey on Thurs., Nov. 30
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Thursday, September
28,
2006
Book Release Reading by
Upcoming:
Patrick Irelan on Wed.,
Oct. 25 |
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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. Rebecca Dunham’s first book of poetry, The Miniature Room, won the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize and was published by Truman State University Press. In 2005-2006 she was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. In 2005 she was awarded the Indiana Review Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Field, AGNI, The Antioch Review, and Crazyhorse, among others. She received her Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. You can read one of Dunham's poems below: |
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Read Work by Past Featured Readers
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Ontology of the Miniature Room from Rebecca Dunham's The Miniature Room
If life is a stage, then props are its truest players: minuscule harpsichords strung with moving keys, tiny books splayed open. It is best to hint at habitation, but not insist. Let the slight indent of a bed’s neat coverlet conjure the prim & purring cat, how it will sleek between candlesticks, claws hooking the hand-stitched rugs.
Our proof of existence lies not in actions, but in the traces we leave behind. That chair pulled out, just so. A satin-green pillow elbowed askew. To enter a room is to be flooded by departure, by impressions fixed upon cushion & wood in silent palimpsest.
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 Sept. 8, 2006 by Jim O'Loughlin |
Vibe
is located at 909 W. 23rd St. in Cedar Falls on the second floor of
Bought again Books.