Chapter&Verse Nov.17.12
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Nov 17: ANNE BOYER • R/B “BECCA” MERTZ • CHRIS McCREARY
bringing the poetry–
Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers, Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, Selected Dreams with a note on phrenology, My Common Heart, The 2000s, and Art is War. Recent work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Joyland Poetry, and Rethinking Marxism. New work also appears here: http://anneboyer.tumblr.com/. She lives on the edge of Kansas and is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute.
R/B “Becca” Mertz is a poet and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. Many of her poems can be found online by utilizing a search engine. She teaches writing at Penn State New Kensington and Duquesne University. She also posts a series of pop song poems at mylyriccompany.tumblr.com, and sometimes she twitters. R/B Mertz is a big fan of Anne Boyer and Philadelphia.
Chris McCreary‘s chapbook Elseworlds was just published by Cy Gist Press. His most recent full-length collection is Undone : A Fakebook (Furniture Press), and a section from his ongoing prose project, The Great American Songbook, is forthcoming in a future issue of Fact-Simile. He teaches at a private high school outside of Philadelphia.
This Saturday, November 17th at 8:00pm at Chapterhouse Cafe, 620 S. 9th St. • Philadelphia, PA
Details here: http://chapterhousereadings.blogspot.com
See you soon,
Ryan & Stan