Poets Cliff Forshaw and Fulcrum editor Katia Kapovich will read from their current work in a free event sponsored jointly by Fulcrum, Pierre Menard Gallery and Lame Duck Books.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 7:00pm, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square, 10 Arrow Street (up Arrow Street from Cafe Pamplona), in Cambridge. A reception will follow during which the poets will sign their books. For more information, email the gallery or call the gallery at 617.868.2033.

About the readers:
Cliff Forshaw lives in Hull, England, where he teaches at the university. He has been a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, winner of the Welsh Academy John Tripp Award, and Hydro-Tasmania International Writer-in-Residence at Hobart. His latest collection, Trans (The Collective Press, Wales, 2005) includes an updating of Ovid's Metamorphoses. He is working on a new book set in Tasmania and recently co-edited (with David Kennedy) Fulcrum’s forthcoming supplement on Poetry and Myth.

Katia Kapovich hails from Soviet Moldova. Her membership in a samizdat dissident group precluded publication of her writing in the USSR. She worked on archeological digs, gauged petroleum tanks, smuggled sheepskins, then emigrated, settling in the US in 1992. The author of six Russian collections and one previous volume of English verse, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004), she lives in Boston and co-edits FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.