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AUSTIN - JUNE 29 - A Poetry Reading with Nick Courtright and Julie Choffel
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June 16th 2012
A Poetry Reading with Nick Courtright and Julie Choffel Friday, June 29, 2012 Domy Books - Austin 913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702 7pm, FREE |
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| Julie Choffel's first collection of poems, The Hello Delay, was selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for the 2011 Poets Out Loud Prize. Choffel's work takes apart our language and puts it together again, opening the world of the everyday to make the familiar feel unreal and then intimately connect us with the impossible. The poems of The Hello Delay are like the voice in the back of your head, resisting common meaning and reminding us of the strangeness of living. Julie Choffel was born and raised in Austin, studied geography at Texas State when it was called SWT, and graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She currently lives in Connecticut, where she teaches creative writing and dreams about breakfast tacos. |
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Punchline is built around quotes by Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Shunryu Suzuki, and it aims to recertify poetry as not just a literary form, but a means to ask humanity’s largest questions, and perhaps even offer some answers to our most profound spiritual problems. As Laurel Review editor John Gallaher puts it, “Between the infinity of the universe and the futility of small matters, along with the prophet and the fatalist, Punchline travels. It’s a tightrope performance Nick Courtright is embarking on here...these are fundamental, open questions, and they anchor a wonderful book.” Nick Courtright’s work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, was published in 2010 by Blue Hour Press both online and in print. He has degrees from Ohio University and Texas State University-San Marcos, and currently teaches English, Philosophy, and Media Studies to both traditional and non-traditional undergraduates. |
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