RMP at AWP Minneapolis

We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Minneapolis next month for the Annual AWP conference, being held this year in Minneapolis April 8-11. We will be at table 732 in the bookfair from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, April 9 through Saturday, April 11. Please stop by the table and say hello!

We'll be having a number of book signings at our table and our authors are also involved in panels and offsite readings. Here's what RMP authors are up to at AWP so you can add these events to your schedule:

WEDNESDAY

Nicelle Davis reading at AROHO's Night of Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness offsite reading on Wednesday, April 8, from 7:00-10:00 pmat the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater.

THURSDAY

Nicelle Davis reading at the Bayou Magazine Contributors Reading offsite reading on Thursday, April 9, at 8:00 pm at Mason's Restaurant Barre at 528 Hennepin Ave. South.

FRIDAY

Kelcey Parker signing copies of Liliane's Balcony at table 732 on Friday, April 10 from 10:30-11:30 am.

Pamela Painter and Sean Lovelace speaking on the panel "Exploring the Contours of Flash Fiction," Friday, April 10 from 12:00-1:15 pm.

Gregory Robinson signing copies of All Movies Love the Moon at table 732 on Friday, April 10 from 1:00-2:00 pm.

William Todd Seabrook signing copies of The Imagination of Lewis Carroll at table 732 on Friday, April 10 from 3:30-4:30 pm.

SATURDAY

Nicelle Davis speaking on the panel "Two Can Play That Game: Techniques for Composing Collaborative Poetry," Saturday, April 11 from 9:00-10:15 am.

Nicelle Davis signing copies of In the Circus of You at table 732 on Saturday, April 11 from 10:30-11:30 am.

Aaron Teel and Margaret Patton Chapman signing copies of My Very End of the Universe at table 732 on Saturday, April 11 from 12:00-1:00 pm.

Kelcey Parker speaking on the panel "From Gothic Ghosts to Gogol's Nose," Saturday, April 11 from 1:30-2:45 pm.

On the night of Saturday, February 26th, author Nicelle Davis brought the Poetry Circus...

...to the Griffith Park Carousel in Los Angeles California to celebrate the launch of her book with visual artist Cheryl Gross, In the Circus of You: An Illustrated Novel-in Poems, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press later this month.

Part performance, part ride, part dance, and part community outreach, the Poetry Circus hosted twenty poets, including Nicelle, reading from their work to an audience seated on painted horses...

...as well as a variety of performers of all kinds. The Poetry Store was on-hand to provide typewritten poems, and lots of other L.A.-area literary organizations including WITS, The Los Angeles Review, RENT Poet, Melrose Poetry Bureau, and The Los Angeles Poetry Society had booths stationed at the merry-go-round's perimeter:

The event was free and open to the public and afforded kids, parents, and people of all ages to run away with the circus...

...and to pre-order or purchase copies of Nicelle and Cheryl's gorgeous new collaboration. You can watch a video snapshot of the evening's proceedings here:



And you can add your own copy of In the Circus of You to your cart here. Thanks to Jason Hughes for all the photographs, and to Karyn Ben Singer for the video.