Hats Off to Sarabande Books!
The Writers’ Center has its own small press (Slapering Hol Press) so we know how hard it is to keep a literary press alive and thriving. We salute the 10th anniversary of one of the best of these—Sarabande Books based in Louisville, KY—with a reading by two of its fine writers. Kurt Brown, a poet, critic and long-time Sarabande board member, will also make some comments.
Neela
Vaswani started out as a poet and now works exclusively in fiction.
Her debut story collection, Where the Long Grass Bends, reflects
her Irish and Indian background but the stories go well beyond those cultures.
One (“Bolero”) starts out on a farm during the Spanish Civil War and another
(“Blue, Without Sorrow”) begins in Mexico. “Lovely, strange, lyrical,
full of true mystery,” say Victoria Redel of these stories.
Dick
Allen is a master poet who is firmly rooted in America in all its
diversity. His last two collections (The Day Before: New Poems
and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected) were published
by Sarabande, and he has four other collections to his name. He is also
the recipient of poetry writing fellowships from the NEA and the Ingram
Merrill Foundation and he has won the Robert Frost Prize of Poetry and
The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. He is widely published in fine journals and
has been in The Best American Poetry four times. He recently retired
from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University
of Bridgeport.
Introductions by Cortney Davis.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.