[Yale-readings] 11/16 at 7pm: Paul Beckman and Mark Wunderlich,

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Mark Wunderlich and Paul Beckman
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, November 16, 7 PM

We're giving thanks for an excellent year of writers and listeners with poet Mark Wunderlich and short story writer Paul Beckman on Tuesday, November 16th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.


Belle Rose Fragment

Tell me the story about alligator hunting.

The one when your father took you.
The one when he was scared.

The water was high.  I remember that.
And the snakes were nesting.  Anywhere on high ground.
There were mounds on them, twined together.
It was cold and they were slow, but there were hundreds.
He put me up on his shoulders.
He told me to be very still.

Then what happened?

         I don't remember.
                                    by Mark Wunderlich


Hold that thought, Sarah said just before running out of the living room. Five minutes later I walked around my apartment looking for her and she was gone no note, no nothing only an open front door.

Two nights later she shows up at dinner time with Chinese take out and says, Continue.

Thats what she says -- Continue--nothing else no explanation, no apology, no nothing.

Did you bring spare ribs? I ask her.

Yes, but that's not what you were saying. Please continue what you were saying.

- from "Chinese Take Out" by Paul Beckman


Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award, and Voluntary Servitude, which was published by Graywolf Press in 2004. He is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Amy Lowell Trust. Individual poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Paris Review, Slate, Boston Review and Yale Review and his work has been widely anthologized. He has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, Ohio University and San Francisco State University, and currently teaches literature and writing at Bennington College in Vermont. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Paul Beckman is a real estate salesman, writer, snorkeler, traveler and photographer. His most recent collection is the chapbook Maybe I Should Sit Quietly In A Dark Room For A While, published by Silkworms Ink. His earlier collection Come! Meet the Family and Other Stories was published by Weighted Anchor Press. Paul specializes in the short story, flash fiction and micro stories. His work has appeared in a large number of journals including The Connecticut Review, The New Haven Review, Onthebus, Playboy, 5 Trope, Exquisite Corpse, and Opium. Three of his six-word stories about New York City were selected as winners in the competition sponsored by the 92 Street Y. Paul holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives with his wife in Madison, Connecticut.

Our next reading is December 14th! We'll be enjoying poetry by Cynthia Zarin and prose by Phillip Lopate.

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