Dear Poets & Followers of Poetry,

*Come celebrate the First Day of summer (& Father’s Day) with a Sunday afternoon reading with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge who will be in town for a visit.*

Come to the Canessa Park Gallery SUNDAY, June 21st at 3PM

708 Montgomery Street (x-Columbus), North Beach, San Francisco

Nice beverages and snacks will be provided; a $3-5 donation at the door kindly & heartily accepted

*Mei-mei Berssenbrugge *was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts.  Her books include /Empathy/ (Station Hill Press) /The Four Year Old Girl/ Concordance with artist Kiki Smith)/  Nest/ ( all Kelsey Street Press) and /I Love/ /Artists, New and Selected Poems/  (University of California Press).  A collaboration with Anne McKeown and Kiki Smith, /Fog/, is forthcoming from the Brodsky Center.  She lives in New Mexico and New York City.

Questions? contact Tiff: tiff_dressen@yahoo.com

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Also, get Cara Benson’s read on the “tinted, textured pages” and “blue batik images tattooed behind the text” of Concordance. This recent review appears in Sentence 6
www.firewheel-editions.org/sentence/current.htm