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Micah Ballard and Garrett Caples

Date:
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
City Lights Bookstore
Location Details:
City Lights Bookstore,
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA

Afterlives (Bootstrap Press) by Micah Ballard

and

Power Ballads (Wave Books) by Garrett Caples

Micah Ballard is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006), and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press, 2001), as well as the collaborations Death Race V.S.O.P (with Cedar Sigo & Will Yackulic), Easy Eden (with Patrick James Dunagan), and Poems from the New Winter Palace (with Michael Carr). His third full-length collection, Afterlives, was just released by Bootstrap Press. He works at the University of San Francisco and with Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the co-editor of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.

Garrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Power Ballads (Wave, 2016), Complications (Meritage, 2007), and The Garrett Caples Reader (Black Square, 1999). He has also written a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave, 2014), and a pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave, 2010). He's also co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn, 215), and The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013). He's also an editor at City Lights, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series.
Added to the calendar on Tue, Sep 6, 2016 2:00PM
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