Sarah Micklem and Cornelius Eady
with
Rough Magic, a Literary Band
Saturday, July 12, 7 PM
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills
320 Sawkill Road, Kingston, NY
Sarah Micklem is the author of two novels, Firethorn and Wildfire . Micklem set out to write about war from a woman’s point of view–not that of a woman warrior, but a camp follower, just about as low on the social hierarchy as a person could get. Along the way she found herself writing about love, magic, drugs and aphasia. Micklem‘s short fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Sex in the System. Her writing website is firethorn.info. In her other profession, Micklem is a graphic designer for Girl Scouts of the USA.
Cornelius Eady, a poet and playwright, was nominated for a National Book Award and twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His play Brutal Imagination won Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award in 2002. His books of poetry are: Brutal Imagination, You Don’t Miss Your Water, The Autobiography of a Jukebox, The Gathering of My Name, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, Hardheaded Weather and Kartunes. Eady’s audio chapbooks are Asking for the Moon and Book of Hooks. He collaborates with jazz musicians, vocalists and Rough Magic, a Literary Band. Eady cofounded Cave Canem Foundation to support African American poets. A frequent award winner and a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, he teaches at the University of Missouri, instructs playwrights in New York City, and has taught at New York University and Sarah Lawrence College.
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Host: Annie LaBarge, 845-514-2007, 845-331-2884
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