November 2
Creative Sustenance, Stamford :
A reading by Ira Joe Fisher, Tim Parrish & Pit Menousek Pinegar
7:00 pm, Schreiber Reading Room, UConn Stamford
**Audience members are asked to make a donation or bring canned goods to this benefit event.**
Ira Joe Fisher’s poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, The New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Diner, Ridgefield Magazine and the anthology Confrontation.
His book-length collection, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, will be published by Athanata Press in 2006. Fisher appears weekly on the CBS Television Network’s Saturday Early Show, and has won two Emmys for television writing.
Tim Parrish is the author of the story collection, Red Stick Men.
Director of the Creative Writing Program at Southern Connecticut State University, his awards include a 2001 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a 2001 Connecticut Arts Fellowship.
Parrish was nominated by Tim O’Brien as one of the Best New American Voices 2002.
Pit Menousek Pinegar is the author of three collections of poetry: Nine Years between Two Poems, The Possibilities of Empty Space, and The Physics of Transmigration, published by Antrim House and nominated for a
2006 Pulitzer Prize. She has received an artist fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on The Arts and the Governor’s Distinguished Advocate of the Arts Award.