Poetry Night with our featured local poets Matthew Gavin Frank and Christina Olson. (Downtown G.R.)

10/14/2010 5:30 pm

Christina Olson is the author of the forthcoming collection of poetry Before I Came Home Naked (Spire Press, 2010). Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 3, Gulf Coast, Brevity, and other publications. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she is currently a visiting assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University, and lives online at <www.thedrevlow-olsonshow.com>.
Matthew Gavin Frank: Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the poetry manuscripts WARRANTY IN ZULU (Barrow Street Press) and SAGITTARIUS AGITPROP (Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books), the poetry chapbooks, FOUR HOURS TO MPUMALANGA (Pudding House Publications) and AARDVARK (winner of the West Town Press Prize) and the food-and-wine memoir, BAROLO (University of Nebraska Press).  His recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Agni, Indiana Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Best Food Writing and Best Travel Writing anthologies, and others. He recently ate cock's combs for the first time in Monforte d'Alba, Italy, and woke the next day early, guttural, and way too loud.

Location: 
Street:
40 Fountain N.W.
City:
Grand Rapids
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Province:
Michigan
Postal Code:
49503
Country:
United States