John Gallaher & G. C. Waldrep @ 9.22.9

By Alexander Hamilton on September 13, 2009 9:22 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Two nines, two twos, two poets: what better way to release our twelfth beautiful issue?

Join us for this FREE reading, Tuesday, September 22nd, at 7pm, in the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Higher Education Campus here in downtown Denver [link for map], with readings by Copper Nickel contributors John Gallaher and G. C. Waldrep, co-sponsored with the University of Colorado Denver Writing Center.

John Gallaher is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Little Book of Guesses, from Four Way Books, 2007, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, 2009, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook, from Blue Hour Press. Other than that, he's currently co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press.

G.C. Waldrep's full-length collections are Goldbeater's Skin (2003), Disclamor (2007), and Archicembalo (2009), which won the 2008 Dorset Prize (judged by C.D. Wright). He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., and teaches at Bucknell University.

& coming soon: Kate Greenstreet on Tuesday, October 6th.

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