Please join us for a reading by poet Gerry LaFemina. Gerry LaFemina is the author of several collections of poetry including 23Below, Shattered Hours: Poems 1988-94, and Zarathustra in Love. His latest collection, Graffiti Heart, received the 2001 Anthony Picione Prize in Poetry from Mammoth Books. Two new collections, The Window Facing Winter (New Issues Press) and The Parakeets of Brooklyn are forthcoming. (The latter book won the Bordighera Prize in Poetry and will be published as a bi-lingual edition in English and Italian.) His co-translations with Sinan Toprak of contemporary Turkish poet Ali Yuce were published as Vocie Lock Puppet in 2001. A noted essayist, fiction writer and teacher, LaFemina is currently a guest professor of writing at Grand Valley State University and director of the annual Controlled Burn Seminar for Young Writers held on Higgins Lake.

"I consider Gerry LaFemina to be the Iggy Pop of Contemporary American poetry." -- Jim Daniels