Patrick Lawler & Diane Wald, Friday, October 14, 7:00 p.m.

WHEN: Friday, October 14, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery St.

Free and open to the public.

For information about the location and parking, click here.

Patrick Lawler is the author of A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990) and
(reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994) and an associate professor at SUNY-ESF.

Diane Wald was born in Paterson, NJ, and has lived in Massachusetts since 1972. She has published over 200 poems in literary magazines since 1966. She was the recipient of a two-year fellowship in poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, The Denny Award, and The Open Voice Award. She also received a state grant from the Artists Foundation (Massachusetts Council on the Arts). She has published three chapbooks (Target of Roses from Grande Ronde Press, My Hat That Was Dreaming from White Fields Press, and Double Mirror from Runaway Spoon Press) and won the Green Lake Chapbook Award from Owl Creek Press. An electronic chapbook (Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet) appears on the Mudlark website. Her book Lucid Suitcase was published by Red Hen Press in 1999 and a new book, The Yellow Hotel, was published by Verse Press in the fall of 2002. She works for animal welfare at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.