An Evening with Two Great Young Poets: Arra Lynn Ross and Greg Hewett

Start: 05/10/2010 7:30 pm

End: 05/10/2010 8:30 pm

Common Good Books welcomes two fine young poets--Arra Lynn Ross and Greg Hewett--to the store on May 10th at 7:30. Arra Lynn Ross's collection, Seedlip and Sweet Apple, published by Milkweed Editions, "reaffirms the tradition of American visionaries, even while reshaping that tradition into an innovative and dynamic lyric," according to D.A. Powell. Hewitt's collection, darkacre, published by Coffee House Press, creates "fresh dimensions where language and human experience become one. They further the surprise of poetry by leaving the reader with a sense that the one world of their maker is the multiple world of his beloved audience."

Join us for this extraordinary night of poetry.

Arra Lynn Ross

Arra Lynn Ross grew up on a communal farm in Minnesota and attended Macalester College, where she earned her BA in English. She is currently completing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Her work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Alimentum. Seedlip and Sweet Apple is her first book.

Greg Hewett

Greg Hewett is the author of The Eros Conspiracy, To Collect the Flesh, and Red Suburb, which was an Indie Bound Poetry Top Ten selection, Publishing Triangle Award winner, and Minnesota Book Award finalist. He has received Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, and has lived in Japan and France. A former HIV interviewer for the Centers for Disease Control, he is currently Associate Professor of English at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.