CUSHING STREET POETRY

 

Barbara Cully, Catherine Daly, and Maryrose Larkin

8:00 pm, Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

 

t Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, on the patio
198 W. Cushing Street
in Tucson, Arizona

just south of Tucson Convention Center
1 block east of Main Street

admission is FREE

The Cushing Street Poetry Series is sponsored by

Chax Press

Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant

&

POG

POG & CHAX PRESS events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Please call Chax Press at 520-620-1626, or email chax@theriver.com, for more information.

 

 

Barbara Cully is the author of Desire Reclining (Penguin, 2003), The New Intimacy (Penguin, 1997), which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition, and Shoreline Series (Kore Press, 1997).  She has received fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and has been Writer-in-Residence for the YMCA Writer’s Voice. She teaches in the Prague Summer Writers’ Program and in the Department of English at the University of Arizona.  She has recently completed a new collection of poems called “Under the Hours.”  Poems from this manuscript have appeared in CUE, Sonora Review and other literary magazines.

 Catherine Daly has published two poetry collections in 2003: Locket, from Tupelo Press, and the trilogy DaDaDa, from SALT Publishing.  She received an MFA from Columbia University in 1991.  An applications architect for fifteen years, she created systems for Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, space shuttle orbiter engineers, NRaD (Navy Research and Development), SONY, and Universal. 

 Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD), and the forthcoming Book of Ocean  (i.e. press). Maryrose is part of Spare Room, a group of people who organize readings and other events in Portland.  Maryrose's work can be found online at No Tell Motel, Gutcult, and Fascicle.

 

Please email Dawn Pendergast (dawnpen@gmail.com) or Paul Klinger (lekling@cox.net) if you have any questions.

Cushing Street so far in fall 2006:

 

September 12: Sue Carnahan & Aaron Cohick