FREDERICK FARRYL GOODWIN – GALACTIC MILK
Monday 25th November
The American poet Frederick Farryl Goodwin will give a reading of his new book, *Galactic Milk*, on Monday 25th November, 8pm, in the Armitage Room (FF), Queens’ College. There will be free wine, and all are welcome to attend. Contact:
jk468@cam.ac.uk
Frederick Farryl Goodwin was born in 1953 in Framingham, Massachusetts, and matriculated at Brown University at age 27, after an adolescence of blunt trauma. (He became mute at the age of 16, following the suicide of his mother, and spent three years hospitalized at McLean Hospital in Belmont.) Following a string of odd jobs, he became the vocalist for the hardcore band Black Hole, and then moved to the U.K., graduating with an M.A. from Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked in the U.S. and abroad as a theatre director, furniture salesman, debt collector, performance poet, farm hand, house painter, and lumber truck driver. He was invited to represent the United States at the UNESCO sponsored Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia in 2009.He is the author of the chapbook from The Gig Press, BUBER’S BAG MAN (2010), and two collections of poetry published by Miami University Press: VIRGIL’S COW (2009) and GALACTIC MILK: THE FIVE QUESTIONS OF MORTALITY (2013).
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RYAN DOBRAN
The fourth reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, 28th November, in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm.
There will be one reader, RYAN DOBRAN, previously of the University of Cambridge, and on this occasion on a visit from the United States of America. Dobran has published various books of poetry, most recently REMOTE CARBON: TEN POEMS (Cambridge: Critical Documents, 2013), as well as SHOUTS FROM OK GLAMOUR (Brighton & London: Barque Press, 2013), CONFECTION (Cambridge: ©_© Press, 2011), DING DING (Cambridge: Critical Documents, 2010) and YOUR GUILT IS A MIRACLE (London: Bad Press, 2008).
He is an editor of the journal GLOSSATOR: PRACTICE AND THEORY OF THE COMMENTARY, and is currently working on a project editing the correspondence of Charles Olson and J.H. Prynne.
All welcome.
Email dmg37@cam.ac.uk or ljj28@cam.ac.uk for details.
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