Poetry Reading with Mark Neely
| When |
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:30pm to 12:42pm |
|---|---|
| Where |
Bracken Library, Ball State University Room 104 |
| What | Art reading, poetry reading, poetry, ball state university |
Ball State English professor and poet Mark Neely will read from his new chapbook, Four of a Kind (Concrete Wolf Press), next Tuesday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. in Bracken Library, room 104. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing with the author. Both events are free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Praise for Mark Neely's Four of a Kind:
"Think newspaper columns: dispatches from the zeitgeist, fromancestral voices, from dreams, from terra incognita. Think mullioned windowpanes: visions of the real, the hyper-real, TV, the neighbors. Think triptychs plus one in the excessive American way. Think classical five-act play minus one in the age of diminished expectations. Think split screen, think directions on maps, think humors of the body. While each frame is an act that arrests, the other frames undermine, amplify, illuminate, or incinerate the original. Flights turn into dreams turn into blues turn into names in an amazing shape-shifting way. They are echo chambers that resonate long after the initial reading. They have a furious and inescapable power." --Bruce Smith, poet
Sponsored by Creative Writing in the Ball State English Department.