by Glenn Sheldon
Readings scheduled for 2008:
b 26 APRIL, Saturday--Cleveland OH (7-9pm):
Suspect Thoughts Bookstore "Queerland Rocks"--
Sponsored by LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland
Glenn Sheldon
Reading followed by Q&A
4903 Clark Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102; 216/631-2665
(Contact: gregw@suspectthoughts.com)
FREE & open to public
b 09 MAY, Friday--East Lansing MI (1:30pm & 3:30pm):
The Midwest Poetry Festival and Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature--
Poetry reading: Gold room A, Michigan State University, "Poems from Bird Scarer" (1:30pm)
Creative nonfiction: Parlor A, Michigan State University, "A Side Trip to Sheldon ND" (3:30pm)
b 15 OCTOBER, Wednesday--Boston MA (4:00pm):
University of Massachusetts-Boston Alumni Poetry Series
Poetry reading: (building/room to be announced)
"Poems from Bird Scarer"
(Contact: joyce.peseroff@umb.edu)
FREE & open to public
b 15 OCTOBER, Wednesday--Boston MA (7:00pm):
Cervena Barva Press Poetry Series
Poetry reading: Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street (Harvard Square, Cambridge),
"Poems from Bird Scarer"
w/John Amen & Kevin Gallagher (Contact: editor@cervenabarvapress.com)
FREE & open to public
b 16 OCTOBER, Thursday--Salem MA (7:30pm):
Salem State College (building to be announced)
"Poems from Bird Scarer"
FREE & open to public
b 18 OCTOBER, Saturday--Brockton MA (3:30pm):
Greater Brockton Society for Poetry & the Arts, Inc.
304 Main Street, Brockton MA. 508/580-7890. (Contact: www.thinkworks.com/bps)
"Poems from Bird Scarer"
w/Gloria Mindock
FREE & open to public
b TBA (Oct.-Nov.)--Columbus OH (7:00pm):
Poetry Forum, LARRY'S BAR, 2040 N. High St., Columbus OH 43201--
Poetry reading: "Poems from Bird Scarer" FREE & open to public
(Contact: Steve Abbott, 614/268-5006; www.larrysbar.com)
Contact the poet at: gsheldon1@aol.com
Here is a poet who has been publishing individual poems for many years in famous literary magazines, experimental zines and in anthologies.
Glenn has finally gathered some of his new work into Bird Scarer, a collection about the frightening world and how to deal with it, face to face, mano a mano, moment by moment.
Long known as a poet's poet, his book has garnered praise from such major poets as Martha Collins, Jim Daniels, Luis Alberto Urrea and Susan Azar Porterfield. His cover image, TOP, has been designed especially just for him by noted scholar and photographer Dr. María de Guzmán.
Co-founder of New Sins Press, author of the literary study South Of Our Selves: 1950's Poets in Mexico, and an associate professor at the The University of Toledo, Glenn returns to his roots as a poet. Originally from Salem MA, he won early praise for his poems and did many national readings. Now Glenn is a Midwesterner who is writing of the many transitions in his life and in our nation.
Bird Scarer confirms that Glenn is needed by contemporary audiences for he offers us his honesty, craft and his unflinching look at our complex America and this world of interactions. The poems are also funny. moving, political, sexy, irreverent and full of surprises.
Buy this book and see a new New England, a mysterious Chicago, an unfamiliar South America, and interior places where words act as stepping stones to adventures. The book is now available directly from Červená Barva Press: http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html.
from "Permanent Address":
Taking down the birdfeeder
at the end of spring
I think of Icarus
plunging into my brain
into the black sky inside me
bn Interview with the author nb
bn Two online poems at Blood Lotus:
http://www.bloodlotus.org/GlennSheldon.htm nb