Tuesday, April 3, 2007

The audio recording of the March 29th poetry reading at Prairie Lights Books is now available. Jaswinder Bolina reads a selection of poems from Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Matthew Zapruder reads from The Pajamaist, and Matthew Rohrer, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, reads a selection of poems from Rise Up.

Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights BooksJaswinder Bolina reads the following poems:

"Employing My Scythe"
"What Awaits the Thunder"
"Middle-Aged Women Dancing to County Music with No Shoes On"
"By This Time Czechoslovakia is Reunited and California Has Fallen Into the Sea"
"Inspired by Actual Events"
"In the Film Version"
"Cool Hand"
"One Day Androids Will Have Pudgy Arms but Still I Reach For You Dear People"

Matthew Zapruder reads the following poems:

"Thank You For Being You"
"Little Voice"
"First Time, Long Time"
"20 Poems for Noel"
"The Painted Desert"
"A Glow"

Matthew Rohrer reads the following poems:

"Four Romantic Poets"
"Summer Poem"
"This Postcard"
"Poem in the Manner of Coleridge"
"Poem on the Radio"
"Poem for the East River"
"Sharp"
"Poem"
"The Ideograms"
"The News is Bad"

Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights Books