New York City Food Writers and Authors at the Bowery Poetry Club

For those of you out there who believe in Free Speech and who love fiction and food, we are happy to announce an upcoming and sure to be satisying event, coming up at Bowery Poetry Club

I already announced the arrival of Alimentum - The Literature of Food, which is a biannual literary journal all about food, featuring original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction (visitwww.alimentumjournal.com ) for more information). This will be a great opportunity to meet the writers and to swap
food stories with foodie friends.

There will be a reading at The Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery at Bleecker Street (6 or F train) NYC

212 614-0505

Saturday, March 4, 2006

12 noon to 2 pm

Free admission (one beverage minimum). Free Alimentum appetizers.

Featured Readers

Donald Newlove - Fiction Guru and author of Painted Paragraphs, First Paragraphs, and Invented Voices. Hisnovels include: The Painter Gabriel; Leo & Theodore. Known for his memoir Those Drinking Days, Myself and Other Writers.

Ann Hood - Author of many books including: An Ornithologist's Guide to Life: Stories; Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time; Somewhere off the Coast of Maine, and others.

Peter Selgin - His stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Salon.com, Northwest Review, Like Water Burning, The Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and more. He teaches fiction at Gotham Writing Workshops and is one of the authors of Writing Fiction published by Bloomsbury.

Elizabeth Anne Socolow - Her chapbook: Between Silence and Praise was published by The Ragged Sky Poetry Series. Her book of poems Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton, won the Barnard Poetry Prize.

Sandy McIntosh - His books of poetry include From a Chinese Kitchen, The After-Death History of My Mother, Between Earth and Sky, Endless Staircase, Earth Works, Which Way to the Egress?, and Firing Back.

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Alimentum, a new journal about food, is small enough to

carry with you for mental and aesthetic nourishment breaks."