National Poetry Month: Arra Lynn Ross at Indigo Bridge Books

Tonight, April 15th from 6-7 pm, Poet and UNL PhD candidate, Arra Lynn Ross joins Indigo Bridge Books to celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading from her first book, Seedlip and Sweet Apple (Milkweed Editions, March 2010).  Copies will be available for purchase, and can be reserved by calling 402.477.7770 or by emailing (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  The reading will be followed by an informal reception and book signing.  Complementary refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.  All ages are welcome.

ABOUT NATIONAL POETRY MONTH:  Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events. Source: Academy of American Poets

ABOUT ARRA LYNN ROSS:  Poet Arra Lynn Ross grew up on a communal farm in Minnesota and attended Macalester College in Saint Paul, where she earned her BA in English. She is currently completing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Her work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Alimentum. Seedlip and Sweet Apple is her first book.  Source: Milkweed.org

ABOUT SEEDLIP AND SWEET APPLE: “Seedlip and Sweet Apple marks the birth of a star. Radical and transgressive young poet and writer Arra Ross has made a miraculous text of narrative and speech fragments—from Sappho to Jesus, from Milton to Blake, from ‘broken bits of Mohawk’ and newspaper accounts—to raise up Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, her ecstatic voice, energy, and vision. If, as Yeats promised, ‘soul clap its hands and sing,’ here she is, on the page, in the ear: Ann Lee in the historical world, harmed and holy, brave, alive and in community, ‘a woman sowing seeds at the break of day.’” —Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

WHAT:  Arra Lynn Ross Reading & Book Signing
WHEN:  Thursday, April 15th, 2010, 6-7 pm
WHERE:  Indigo Bridge Books
            The Creamery Building
            701 P Street, Suite 102
            Lincoln, NE 68508

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