[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series Celebrates Poet Cameron Gearen and Novelist Alice Mattison on 9/16 at 7PM - Join us!

[Kuhl, Nancy]

ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES CELEBRATES TWO PRIZEWINNING AUTHORS:
POET CAMERON GEAREN AND NOVELIST ALICE MATTISON
Tuesday, September 16, 7pm

The Ordinary Evening Reading Series celebrates Autumn and all its beginnings with readings by poet Cameron Gearen and by novelist and Ordinary Evening co-curator Alice Mattison, whose new novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, is released that very day!  Join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 16th, at the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel.



                ... Come with stones and a selectively green car.
           I've set aside a weekend for crying and sleeping.
          You weren't there when I stretched the laundry
           crossways.
           Wishing a homestead, wailing like that hound.
           Doors sound like airplanes taking off.
            If I thought you were listening, love.
                           - from "Invitation" by Cameron Gearen


                ... what interests me most about Con is not exactly that she could remember and learn-who can do that?-but that when she discovered, in middle age, that more than fourteen years earlier she'd failed to pay attention, she tried to find out what she needed to know, even though she didn't want to.
          - from Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn by Alice Mattison


Cameron Gearen was born in New Haven and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. She has published a chapbook of poetry entitled Night, Relative to Day that was selected by Robert Pinsky (2004). Her poetry has appeared in Fence, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review, River Styx, Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest Review and elsewhere. She won the Grolier Prize in 1994, the W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Contest in 2001 and the 2005 Lynda Hull Prize from Crazyhorse. She currently teaches in the English Department at Hamden Hall Country Day School.
An excerpt from Alice Mattison's soon-to-be released novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, (Harper Collins) appeared recently in The New Yorker. Her most recent book, In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2005 and won the Connecticut Book Award for fiction. She is the author of four other novels and three other collections of stories. She lives in New Haven and teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont, and in the Fine Arts Work Center summer workshops in Provincetown, MA.



Ordinary Evening's Fall 2008 season promises a wide diversity of excellent writers: non-fiction writers Jonathan Spence and Lisa Sanders (10/14), novelist Martha Southgate and fiction writer Liz Edelglass (11/18), and novelist Patricia Volk and non-fiction writer Charles Barber (12/16). We welcome  drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place."

Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.



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