How to Live in Ruins Book Launch

Loganberry Books on Larchmere has always been one of my favorite bookstores. The space is beautiful, it's locally-owned, and it's big enough that you can get lost in it. (Be careful. You might find yourself coming out an hour later with eight books in hand -- not that that's a bad thing.)

I'm holding my book launch party there on Friday, January 11th from 630-8:30 pm. Please join me. There will be wine, some snacks and good conversation. I'll be reading with poets Jim Garrett and Diane Vogel Ferri, who also have new books out from Finishing Line Press.

In Jim's new chapbook The Sound of Water, he "returns to his summers as a boy on the beaches of the Jersey shore," as George Bilgere writes in his blurb of the book. "You can taste the salt water in these poems and hear the waves and seagulls and the ancient laughter of his family on the beach."

Diane's new chapbook The Volume of Our Incongruity draws from personal experiences over a lifetime. "These are poems for our times, stirring a compelling swirl where the past intersects with the present, where hope for the future can spring from a single sonogram," writes Gail Bellamy.

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