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Pure Logophilia: a poetry reading and book signing with Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton
plus a showcase of pieces from the workshop

This event is co-sponsored by Chax Press

Saturday
December 17, 7 p.m.
Refeshments will be served
Suggested Donation: $5

This reading is open to the public and a part of an entire weekend of programing with Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton. For more information on the rest of the weekend or to enroll in workshops, please visit: Pure Logophilia

Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton are the co-authors of Stealth (Chax Press, 2011). Long-time friends, Maureen and Samuel have been collaborating through email for the past three years and are currently working on their second book, a hybrid of poetry, prose, and visuals. Sam and Maureen will be reading from Stealth, as well as new work. Chax Press will be on hand to sell copies of Stealth, which the authors would be happy to sign.

 

Samuel Ace has published widely in periodicals and journals, including Ploughshares, Eoagh, Nimrod, The Prose Poem, an International Journal, and the Kenyon Review. He is a poet, photographer and educator, the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex (Firebrand Books), Home in three days. Don’t wash., a multimedia project of poetry, video and photography (Hard Press), and most recently Stealth, co-authored with Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writer’s Fund Prize in Poetry, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.

 

Maureen Seaton's recent publications include her sixth solo poetry collection, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009) and a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin Press Living Out Series, 2008), winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Her previous collections include Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award; and Furious Cooking (University of Iowa Press, 1996), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She is co-editor, with Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad, of Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2006).  Her solo and collaborative work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Bloom, and elsewhere. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry and two Pushcart Prizes for individual poems, Seaton teaches poetry at the University of Miami, Florida.