Friday, April 17, 2009

catalytic exteriorization phenomenon

New Book Launch Rae Armantrout Mel Nichols
8:00PM Friday April 17th @ Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC
Please join us at 8:00PM Friday April 17th @ Bridge Street Books for a reading and publication celebration featuring Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols. 

Armantrout's VERSED was recently published by Wesleyan University Press. CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON by Mel Nichols is just out from Edge Books

Rae Armantrout has forged a growing international reputation--publishing eight remarkable books of poems including the brand new Versed (Wesleyan, 2009). Other books include Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001), as well as countless poems in anthologies (Best American Poetry 2002, and Postmodern American Poetry, and a Norton Anthology, 1994). She has taught writing at The University of California San Diego for almost two decades.  

Mel Nichols is the author of Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha Press 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones mnichol6 (Edge Books 2007), Day Poems (Edge Books 2005), and due out from Edge Books in mid-April, Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (finalist in the National Poetry Series). With Mark Cunningham she recently collaborated on the online chapbook nightlightnight.