CAROL GUESS & KEVIN SIMMONDS |
Tonight two esteemed queer writers of both prose and poetry share our stage. Carol Guess' most recent reading here was from her novel, Homeschooling, a Lambda Award finalist for Lesbian Fiction. This visit, she'll read from My Father in Water (Shearsman Books), an interlinked collection of essays about her relationship with her late, scientist father. "'As they float across regions right now and bodies back then' these essays refuse to distinguish between life and labor, love and loss. Guess proves herself to be—yet again—a consummate recorder of our collective queer heart." – Scott Herring. Traveling here from San Francisco to read is poet, musician, and past Jack Straw Foundation writer Kevin Simmonds. He will read from his new book of poems, Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry/Dufour). "As sharply and carefully honed as his poems are, Kevin Simmonds has managed to preserve a quality of urgency, spontaneity and surprise in his poems through his unquestionable sense of music, and above all, his willingness to take risks in subject and form." – Kwame Dawes.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
