Spring is in the air, time for some poetry!Two poets that both studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana will be reading at Auntie's this Sunday at 12.30.
Gary Thompson will read from his new book, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, recently released by Turning Point Books.
His poems have been described by Dennis Schmitz, author of The Truth Squad and About Night as “Lyrical, wry, at ease—these poems have a deep inner life. They are inhabited, not haunted, by Keats and Raymond Carver, a hesitant dead father who reaches Thompson on the telephone, by angels weathered as birds, by found loves—but always inhabited (the only test of real poetry) by the poet himself.”
Thomas Aslin will read from his new book, A Moon Over Wings, published by Clark City Press of Livingston, Montana.
Joseph Stroud, author of Of This World: New and Selected Poems, praises Aslin’s work: “The courage and big heart of these poems bring to mind the work of Richard Hugo. Like Hugo, Aslin struggles with the difficulties of our all too human lives. Thomas Aslin’s poems are the history of a man working and finding his way into grace. His excellence as a poet . . . is that he makes that grace available to all of us.”
Please support the arts by joining us on Sunday, 17 May at Auntie’s Books (402 West Main ) for an afternoon of exceptional Northwest contemporary poetry.
A book signing will follow the reading.
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