Book Release Party for Swelter by Elise Ficarra

Fri, Dec 9
7:00pm
FREE

Please join 14 Hills Press as we celebrate the release of:

SWELTER by Elise Ficarra
with guest reader Robin Romm

Join us in celebrating the release of the chapbook Swelter that is:

"Exploratory in form yet ultimately grounded in, and devoted to,
everyday experience. Elise Ficarra's Swelter seeks to rescue te
lyric during the latest war's assault on our senses." -Brian Henry


"Where words foreshadow and mirror each other in Elise Ficarra's
Swelter, where we apprehedn their correspondences, our re-reading is
always a first reading--startling--as of a poem which can be
inhabited in multiple dimensions at once." -Benjamin Hollander


"These brilliant and engaging poems do double time as the world's
most innovative and advanced Ouija board." -Stacy Doris


About the Author:

Elise Ficarra's work has appeared in Bird Dog, Commonweal, Fourteen
Hills, Small Town, Transfer and other journals. She was awarded the
Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor College Prize in 2004. She is
a contributor to Hinge a BOAS anthology of eight Bay Area
experimental women writers (Crack Press, 2002). Her first chapbook,
Onslaught Beings, was made in 2002. She lives in San Francisco where
she has worked for a number of years as the business manager of The
Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives.

Robin Romm's collection of stories, The Tilt, won last year's Michael
Rubin Chapbook Award from San Francisco State University. Her short
fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in many national magazines
including Tin House, One-Story, Threepenny Review, Nimrod, and The
Portland Review. She teaches at Laney College, The Writing Salon, and
San Francisco State University. She'll be a MacDowell Fellow in spring
2006.

Visit www.14hills.net for more information.

Venue:

The Makeout Room
3225 22nd Street
San Francisco



between Mission and Valencia on 22nd Street

Additional Info:


www.14hills.net