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Fur Not Light Party & Reading
November 2, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
FreeTo celebrate the publication of Jeff Alessandrelli’s second poetry collection Fur Not Light Cardinal Club will be hosting a post-Halloween party/reading with some of Jeff’s friends who helped him shape/edit the book. Special drinks and foodstuffs inspired by Fur Not Light will be for sale and free (chocolate) cake will also be available. This will be the international literary event of the decade.
Fur Not Light press blurbicle:
Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Fur Not Light interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as “Nothing of the Month Club” and “December 32nd,” as well as the long ideogram-based work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” Fur Not Light makes manifest the way that, as one of the poems in the volume puts it, “there’s a difference between turning around and turning back.”
http://burnsidereview.org/fur-not-light/
Reader bios:
Veronica Martin is a poet and writer with an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared various publications, including Vestoj, Hesperios Journal, Poor Claudia, Kinfolk and The Open Bar, Tin House’s blog, where her column explored the intersection of literature and personal aesthetic. She is based in Portland, Oregon.
Justin Rigamonti teaches college writing courses in Portland, Oregon, and co-directs a literary non-profit called Poetry Press Week. His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Burnside Review, and Zocalo Public Square.
John Beer is the author of Lucina & The Waste Land and Other Poems, and the editor of Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax. He teaches at Portland State University.
Rachel Springer is a writer and biostatistician living in Portland, OR. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program and the author of Hive Mind (Poor Claudia, 2014).
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST (2014) and Fur Not Light (2019), both from Burnside Review Press. In addition to his writing work he runs the non-profit literary record label Fonograf Ed.