Ordinary Evening Reading Series Brings You a Special Gift: Two December Readings!

The Ordinary Evening Reading Series is celebrating the holiday season with two readings in December, on the 5th and the 19th. Both will occur at 7pm downstairs at the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (272 College St., New Haven). December 5th features three poets: Bruce Covey, P.F. Potvin, and Reb Livingston. Two more poets, the experimental poet Gabriel Gudding and the noted Rosanna Warren, will read on December 19th.

Bruce Covey is Lecturer of Creative Writing at Emory University and the author of The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires and the forthcoming Ten Pins, Ten Frames (Front Room, Michigan) and Elapsing Speedway Organism (No Tell Books). His recent poems also appear or are forthcoming in 26, Verse, LIT, Bombay Gin, Boog City, 580 Split, and other journals. He edits the web-based poetry magazine Coconut and curates the What’s New in Poetry reading series in Atlanta.

Michigander P.F. Potvin is a writer, musician, and ultra-marathon runner. His prosy book, The Attention Lesson, which chronicles adventures in Patagonia, New Zealand, Europe and the U.S., is forthcoming from No Tell Press. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars where he received the Jane Kenyon Poetry Scholarship. Other scholarships include the Vermont Studio Center and the Catskill Poetry Conference. His writing has appeared in Born Magazine, Boston Review, Sentence, Black Warrior Review, Pierogi Press, and No Tell Motel. He also serves on the editorial board of Drunken Boat.

Reb Livingston is the author of Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, forthcoming) and Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006 and literary magazines. Along with Carly Sachs, she curates the Washington DC-based reading series, Lolita and Gilda's Burlesque Poetry Hour.

A Brace of Poets for November 7th's Ordinary Evening Reading Series

In the bracing November air, please join the Ordinary Evening Reading Series on Tuesday, November 7, at 7pm, downstairs at the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room (272 College St, New Haven) to hear two exciting poets from both coasts.

Ed Skoog's poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Slate, and other journals in the U.S. and England. He has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences, and in 2005 won the William Faulkner Prize for Poetry from the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Society in New Orleans. He lives in southern California.

Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of This Body of Silk, which won the 1986 Samuel French Morse Prize, The Wedding Boat (Owl Creek Press), as well as The Leaving: New and Selected Poems and The Golden Hour, both published by Autumn House; she is also the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She has been a Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Visiting Writer at Central Connecticut State University, and Poet-in-Residence at SUNY Binghamton and at the Frost place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poetry has been widely anthologized including in Garrison Keillor's nationally syndicated radio show Writer's Almanac. Formerly of Mystic, Connecticut, she has just moved to Maryland, where she works as a writer and editor.