Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

Poetry reading by Richard Garcia, author of Porridge — Thurs., Mar. 17, 5:30 pm

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Join us Thurs., Mar. 17, 5:30 pm, for a poetry reading and reception with Richard Garcia, author of Porridge (Press 53, pb., $14.95).

About the author:  Richard Garcia is the winner of Press 53’s 2016 Award for Poetry. The author of six books, his poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, The Cortland Review and Ploughshares. His work has been included in The Best of the Prose Poem, The Pushcart Price: Best of the Small Presses, and Best American Poetry 2005.  He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, the Greensboro Award from the The Greensboro Review, the Cohen Award from  Ploughshares, and the Georgetown Prize from Georgetown Review. He was poet-in-residence at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles for twelve years, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for hospitalized children. He teaches at the Antioch University M.F.A. in Creative Writing program in Los Angeles. He lives in Charleston.

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