DON’T MISS! NICK FLYNN and MARY KARR
Reading at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
Monday, March 26 at 8 pm in Kaufmann Concert Hall.
As always, the Poetry Center is offering $10 tickets to anyone under the age of 35. These tickets are available for purchase on the web at www.92y.org/poetry.
* A.M. Homes called Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City “the perfect memoir.” Mr. Flynn’s poetry collections are Some Ether and Blind Huber. An excerpt from his memoir: “If you asked me about my father then—the years he lived in a doorway, in a shelter, in an ATM—I’d say, Dead, I’d say, Missing, I’d say, I don’t know where he is. I’d say whatever I felt like saying, and it would all be true. I don’t know him, I’d say, my mother left him shortly after I was born, or just before. But this story did not hold still for long. It wavered. Even before he became homeless I’d heard whispers, sensed he was circling close, that we were circling each other, like planets unmoored.”
* Mary Karr’s fourth collection of poems is Sinner’s Welcome. She has written two memoirs: The Liar’s Club, a winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize, and Cherry. An excerpt from her poem “A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son”: “I have this son who assembled inside me / during hurricane Gloria. In a flash, he appeared, / in a tiny blaze. Outside, pines toppled. // Phone lines snapped and hissed like cobras. / Inside, he was a raw pearl: microscopic, luminous. / Look at the muscled obelisk of him now // pawing through the icebox for more grapes. / Sixteen years and not a bone broken, / nor a single stitch. By his age, // I was marked more ways, and small.”
Upcoming events in April include Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Monday, April 16 at 8pm and Nathan Englander and Jonathan Lethem on Wednesday, April 25 at 8 pm.
Official Website: http://www.92y.org/poetry