Poetry reading: Richard Krawiec, Bruce Lader & Sara Claytor

Sunday

04/18/10  2:00-3:30pm (confirm time)

Poetry reading: Richard Krawiec, Bruce Lader & Sara Claytor

Richard Krawiec's first novel, Time Sharing, was published by Viking Penguin. It was reviewed by such luminaries as Michiko Kakutani, Richard Eder, and Jonathon Yardley. It was featured in Publisher's Weekly Recommended List, and the Village Voice Real Life Rock Top Ten column. Multiple film options have been sold through the years. He has also published a novel Faith in What?, a short story collection, And Fools of God, and four plays. His poetry book, Breakdown , published by Main Street Rag Publishers, was a finalist for the 2009 Indy Book Awards in Poetry. His third novel, Almost Murder, is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Bruce Lader has published poems in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Humanist, International Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, New Millennium Writings, Margie, Poet Lore, and Asheville Poetry Review. His first full-length collection, Discovering Mortality, was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Award. He is a former Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Colony, recipient of an honorarium from the College of Creative Studies at the UC-Santa Barbara, and founding director of Bridges Tutoring, an organization educating multicultural students.

Sara Claytor is a native Tar Heel and former teacher of literature, writing & communications at various NC universities and public school systems. She holds two graduate degrees from UNC-CH. Winner of the 2000 Thunder Rain Award in poetry, she was the featured poet for L’Intrigue. Recipient of numerous poetry prizes, two short stories have received first place in Sensations Magazine competition; also first place in short fiction at the Virginia Highlands Festival and first place in The Charlotte Writer’s Club Elizabeth Simpson Smith Award. Fiction and poetry have appeared in over 100 publications. She worked as fiction editor for a small press specializing in mystery-suspense and as co-editor of the former Internet literary journal The Moonwort Review. Pudding House Pubs. (2007) published her chapbook, Reviving the Damsel Fish.  Her first full-length poetry book, Howling on Red Dirt Roads, was published by Main Street Rag ( 2008). A full-length poetry book Keeping Company With Ghosts is under contract with Rock Way Press. She and husband Robert Rutherford are attempting now to combine guitar and keyboard with vocals of selected original poems or just to interject “light notes.”