East Coast / West Coast - E Alex Pierce & Troy Jollimore

Owl's Head House Concert 
Poetry by E. Alex Pierce and Troy Jollimore
40 Owl's Head Road, Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia
$15.00, food and wine included. 

http://www.halmc.ca/Halmc.ca/Photo_Albums/Pages/House_Concerts.html   

East Coast / West Coast
Friday, 10 August 7:00 for 7:30

E. Alex Pierce holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, and has been a participant in the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. Her work has been in anthologized in Words Out There: Women Writers in Atlantic Canada (Roseway); Best Canadian Poetry 2008 (Tightrope); and in the recently published Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant). Her book, Vox Humana, published by Brick Books will go into a second printing this summer! Pretty special for a book of poetry; congratulations. Visit her website at E. Alex Pierce. <http://www.ealexpierce.com/> 

Troy Jollimore is currently Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. In 2007 he was named an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry in 2006. It was also nominated for the 2007 Poets' Prize, and individual poems in the collection received nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His second collection, At Lake Scugog, appeared in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011. Troy's poems have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and Poetry. Please see "Troy Jollimore Wins Nations Book Critics Award" <http://news.csuchico.edu/2007/03/14/troy-jollimore-wins-national-book-critics-circle-award-for-poetry/>