Station Note Readings

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It’s called Station Note. A temporary installation of poets.
2wo from Boston: Gregory Lawless & David Blair 
1ne from Maine: Aaron Gerber 
Reading Poems. With you. 7:30pm. No charge. 
That’s 3 angels for free. Q & A to follow. 

Join us after for drinks and revery at Block Six. Just across the hall. 

Originally from Maine, Aaron Gerber is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire’s MFA Program. He writes poems and has played music. Currently, he lives in South Berwick, Maine. He has been published in The Minnesota Review, Sun Skeleton, Catch Up, and others. He enjoys making friends with animals. 

Of his writing, Marc Paltrineri has said...

"Aaron Gerber's poems possess what many self-help books call an 'emotional intelligence.' In their wit and candor, the poems speak with nuance about the daily pains and beauties of living. They feel in ways we forget how to, or choose not to, and in their feeling they reveal the kinds of small wisdoms that are so absent in much of contemporary poetry these days, and yet this is exactly the kind of poetry that will always be needed."

David Blair is a poet who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is the author of Ascension Days (Del Sol Press, 2007), and two books of poetry set for publication in 2016, Arsonville (New Issues Poetry & Prose) and Friends with Dogs (Sheep Meadow Press). He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, the New England Institute of Art, and the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. 

Of his 1st book, Tony Hoagland has said…

“Blair loves the tactile milieu of public worlds—the street, the city aquarium, the school cafeteria, the deserted beach town. He has a great appetite for what Charles Olsen called the sensorium. This outwardness marks him as a member of the New York School diplomatic corps, striding through the world as generously and energetically as O`Hara. It’s only as you keep reading that you notice small signature splotches of poetic pigment, like the compressed detail, here, of sphinxes with “golden wigs and temperate paws,” or the fine poetic extravagance of “If you stand in the middle / of graduations you feel the rivers spread their silt,” which affirms the intuition that the Bronx and the Nile have a surprising kinship. Bravo.” 

Gregory Lawless is the winner of the 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry and the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Cimarron Review, The National Poetry Review, Salamander, Cider Press Review, Third Coast, The Cincinnati Review, and many others. His the author of the forthcoming books Far Away (Red Mountain Press, 2015) and Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press).

Of his writing, David Blair has said… 

"All things being basically metaphorical, the poems of Gregory Lawless are austere, spare, and sharply observed, brief, skeptical, implicated as they sort through the rubble, and lively with movement. It's as if he didn't get the memo that a poet born in 1979 is supposed to be utterly consumed with his or her own preciousness, or to have voice chops fit for writing snappy advertising copy for protection.  Nor does he seek shelter in complicated seeming apparatuses of any kind, least of all intellectual ostentation or grand cultural narratives or even a belief in grief. It's a bleak and terrified country in his Foreclosure prose poems, and he meets it with the counterweight of this inventive work that is firmly in the tradition of concrete and musical language which uses all of the tools of poetry."