April 04, 2006
Last Poetry Fix of the Season
Okay, roll the snare drums; this Thursday is the last Readings @ reading of the season, and it's the big guns, kids! T'aint every day that there's a Guggenheim Fellow drinking beer in the Schlafly Club room, after all.
The Club Room is inside the Tap Room (2100 Locust) and the reading is at 8pm. And like all poetry readings, it doesn't cost anything.
So here I quote Mr. Belz, fearless leader and founder of Readings @ The Tap Room, in his description of the poets:
Jane Mead and Carl Phillips
"Jane Mead is the author of The Lord and the General Din of the World, (Sarabande Books,1996) and House of Poured-Out Waters (University of Illinois, 2001). She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Carl Phillips is the author of seven books of poems, including The Rest of Love, finalist for the National Book Award, and The Tether, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His new book, Riding Westward, comes out this spring.
For directions and other information, please visit http://belz.net/readings/"
For those who are not poetry geeks like me, take note that Mr. Phillips is one of our own; he teaches at Wash U. & hangs his hat in the Central West End.