c/c reading 004:

(Saturday, 21 May 2011)

Marcella Durand

Pattie McCarthy

H.B. Irwin

We’d like to convivially invite you to the fourth installment of the c/c reading series, featuring a trio of outstanding writers.

Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom St

530pm to 730pm

(Free – $5 suggested donation)

Thanks and look forward to seeing you there!

- Jamie Townsend & Nicholas A DeBoer

H.B. Irwin grew up in rural Arkansas.  She has lived in Philadelphia, studying at Temple University for 3 years.  She is an absurdist, a nihilist and an all-around negative-nancy.  She currently lives and works in Fishtown.

Pattie McCarthy is the author of Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (2010), Verso (2004) and bk of (h)rs (2002), all from Apogee Press.  A new chapbook, L&O, if forthcoming from Little Red Leaves.  Poems from her in-progress book-length poem Marybones have recently appeared or are forthcoming in 20012, Elective Affinities, and Lana Turner.  She is a lecturer in the English Department of Temple University and lives in South Philadelphia.

Marcella Durand‘s recent books include Deep eco pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh (available as a PDF from Little Red Leaves here), AREA (Belladonna, 2008), and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific book-length poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan (Futurepoem Books, 2008).  She was the 2010-2011 Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice for the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught a course in ecology and poetry.