After the 8-Ball (Paperback)
In-Store Event
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 6:30pm
Schuler Books
2660 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512
This is a new date for this event!
Body of Work: Three poets share how they developed memories, personal curiosities, and unexpected obsessions into the poems that would become their debut books. What does it take to shape an image, rough story, or family myth into a body of work? How do themes and threads come together in a poetry collection? Join us in a conversation open to poets, poetry readers, and the poetry-curious alike.
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Reply hazy, try again. All the poems in After the 8-Ball want answers, and so have thrown themselves at the mercy of a black plastic 8-Ball filled with dark blue alcohol and a tiny twenty-sided die. Love, loss, and Lake Michigan feature prominently in this debut collection from Colleen Alles who examines everyday life in the Midwest with precision and depth. From the hound asleep in the sun to the pebbles lined up in the sill of a window facing west, these poems stand ready to accept whatever the 8-ball has in store, hoping, always, for, As I see it, yes.