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Celebrate the publication of Thaddeus Rutkowski’s new poetry collection, Tricks of Light
With guest readers John S. Hall, Yuko Otomo, Deborah Pintonelli, Sparrow, and Edwin Torres.
Hosted by David Lawton
Free admission
Please note that venue is 21+ and there is a two drink minimum.
“There is an underlying wry humor but also the ache of loss and regret in Tricks of Light. We are struck by what happens to our existence when confronting the family we create and those that we are forced to confront with the compassion of sun and sky. A gorgeous, seamless stream of vignettes flows with cinematic breadth…Here is a poet at the top of his craft reaching a meditative transcendence and generously giving it to us as if ripping a bouquet of memory from his chest. ”
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of six previous books, including the poetry collection Border Crossings. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Members’ Choice Award, and his creative memoir Guess and Check received the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, as well as in Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, Fiction, Fiction International, Pleaides, Potomac Review, Sou’wester, and many other magazines. A graduate of Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University, Rutkowski received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was a resident writer at Yaddo, MacDowell, and other colonies. Traveling extensively, he has been a featured reader in Budapest, Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and was selected to read in the former compound of East German President Erich Honecker in Berlin. Rutkowski lives with his wife, Randi Hoffman, in Manhattan.