THURSDAY AUGUST 15 featuring
Author of the new retrospective collection MOONMAN
Doors open at 7 7:30m open mic
Bring printed copy for your poem to be eligible to be chosen to be printed in Downey Patriot
At downtown Downey’s premier performance venue
Clifton Mark Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator, has now given us Moonman: New and Selected Poems, an engaging collection of his poetry. Readers will delight in Clif’s use of precise verbs, the timing of his phrases and his descriptive powers. Even more impressive are the moving endings of many of his poems. His poems about family fall into this category. “Sonnet for My Mother,” “My Father’s Hands” and the poem “Holocaust,”written about a distant Norwegian cousin,are poignant because of their subject matter, their tone and their insights. – Austin Alexis.
…As Andrew Demcak says, whether he’s drawing a character in verse, lamenting the death of his dear cat, talking about the war in the Gulf, he treats each subject with a profound respect and a depth of feeling . . . His coming out/coming of age novel, Bare Roots, was published in 2001 by Xlibris, as was his latest autobiographical novel, Wrestling with Angels: A Tale of Two Brothers, about two gay brothers, Pentecostal preacher’s sons, one of whom disappears under ominous circumstances
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8239 Second Street in the heart of downtown Downey handicap accessible
Wine & beer served foodat LA Buns next store brought to your seat OK if under 21
Reading curated by Lorine Parks lorine
