Black Cat Promotions, Leeds presents a Literary Soirée with
THOMAS GLAVE AND ROMMI SMITH
@ The Viaduct, Lower Briggate, Leeds, Thursday 15 January 2009, 6.30 to 8.30 pm
THOMAS GLAVE AND ROMMI SMITH
@ The Viaduct, Lower Briggate, Leeds, Thursday 15 January 2009, 6.30 to 8.30 pm
Tickets £5 /£2 (low income) are available from: The Viaduct and Orlando Fashion, 174 Chapeltown Road, Leeds 7
Thomas Glave will read from his new book of short stories, The Torturer's Wife (City Lights, 2009).
Thomas Glave is editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) and author of two collections: Whose Song? and Other Stories (2001) and the Lambda Literary Award winner Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005). He is currently 2008-09 Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and teaches Creative Writing at the State University of New York, Binghampton.
Rommi Smith will read from her collection of poems Mornings and Midnights (forthcoming, Peepal Tree Press) about the legendary Diva Gloria Silver.
Rommi Smith is a poet, playwright and teacher living in Leeds. She has performed at Glastonbury and at arts, music and literature festivals in Amsterdam, Paris and New York. Her broadcasts include work for BBC Radio shows The Verb; Woman's Hour, Fine Lines, and Poetry Please and she took part in Radio 4's 2002 Poetry Festival. In 2007 she was Parliamentary Writer in Residence exploring the 1807 Act to abolish the British Slave Trade.
More information about the readings as well as photographs of the authors are in the attachment. Flyers are also available on request.
Thomas Glave will read from his new book of short stories, The Torturer's Wife (City Lights, 2009).
Thomas Glave is editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) and author of two collections: Whose Song? and Other Stories (2001) and the Lambda Literary Award winner Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005). He is currently 2008-09 Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and teaches Creative Writing at the State University of New York, Binghampton.
Rommi Smith will read from her collection of poems Mornings and Midnights (forthcoming, Peepal Tree Press) about the legendary Diva Gloria Silver.
Rommi Smith is a poet, playwright and teacher living in Leeds. She has performed at Glastonbury and at arts, music and literature festivals in Amsterdam, Paris and New York. Her broadcasts include work for BBC Radio shows The Verb; Woman's Hour, Fine Lines, and Poetry Please and she took part in Radio 4's 2002 Poetry Festival. In 2007 she was Parliamentary Writer in Residence exploring the 1807 Act to abolish the British Slave Trade.
More information about the readings as well as photographs of the authors are in the attachment. Flyers are also available on request.
