[Cwgrad-announcements] Lynne Thompson at Ugly Mug

[Ching-In Chen]

Hey folks!

Lynne Thompson, the winner of last year's Perugia Press book contest,
is featuring at the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry reading at The Ugly Mug
Cafe in Orange at 8 pm.

I'm planning on checking it out if anybody else is interested.

Ching-In

http://www.poetryidiots.com/

    Featuring on November 7, 2007:
    Lynne Thompson

    Ugly Mug favorite Lynne Thompson will be reading from her new
book, Beg No Pardon. Don't miss it.

    " In Lynne Thompson's new collection, Beg No Pardon, the poems
move from precise reflections on childhood to the rights of passage of
young adult years, and then on to all the days of joy and despair,
solitude, longing, and self-knowledge that follow in a life richly
lived and acutely observed. Thompson is a poet who revels in language
— that 'house of many pleasures.' Like the 'one good eye' of her
'Unworshipped Woman,' this collection delights, 'it flash -' "
—Natasha Trethewey

    "The poems in Lynne Thompson's Beg No Pardon sing of her Caribbean
ancestors, won't be told the can or can't do, have the perfume of sin
bleeding from their fingertips. These poems drip from lips the color
of peril. Here is a deep ode to blackness, an incantatory chant from a
deep well full of mythic missives. Read this book."
    —Tony Barnstone

$2.00 cover charge or one drink minimum with student ID.