When:	Back to Calendar December 1, 2012 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Where:	Big Blue Marble Bookstore 551 Carpenter Ln Philadelphia,PA 19119 USA	View Full-Size Map ✔ Add to Calendar Add to Google Calendar

Saturday, December 1, 2012

4 pm.

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane

Nor’easter Open. Featuring: Beth Bosworth and D. Nurkse.

A monthly open mic brought to you by Quincy Scott Jones and Nina Sharma Jones, founders of the Nor’easter Exchange, a floating literary reading series that brings together multicultural writers from the tri-state area to meet, read and collaborate. The Nor’easter Open is held on the second Friday of each month and welcomes two featured readers followed by an open mic. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early (3:45pm) to sign up for the open mic, and allot 3 minutes for your reading. Co-sponsored by Certain Circuits Magazine.

This past September, Beth Bosworth’s short story collection The Source of Life and Other Stories was released by The University of Pittsburgh Press, winning the 2012 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She is also the author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories. She is founding editor of The Saint Ann’s Review and has taught English and writing at Saint Ann’s School, The New School for Social Research and CUNY’s New York City Technical College.

D. Nurkse is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently A NIGHT IN BROOKLYN (Knopf, 2012). He’s received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tanne Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Foundation. He’s taught at Rikers Island, inner city literacy programs, and MFA programs. He currently works at Sarah Lawrence College.