Celebrate National Poetry Month At the Fairfield University Bookstore Cafe

Phil Lemos

Look forward to presentations of poetry, prose and music tonight in the cafe at the Fairfield University Bookstore (former site of Borders) featuring Phil Lemos, Katie Schneider, Daisy Abreu, Jeanne DeLarm Neri, Jonathan Greenfield, Brian Hoover, Chris Madden and other members of the MFA in Creative Writing Group of Fairfield University.

Daisy Christina Abreu

Besides all being part of the university's MFA program, several of tonight's contributors also serve on the editorial board of Mason's Road, a literary/arts journal sponsored by Fairfield University (http://www.masonsroad.com).

As Fiction Editor, Phil Lemos writes the blog Life in the Philloverse (http://philloverse.blogspot.com/) and has published several short stories in the past year, including “Let It Go” and “BMW Supermodel". He is currently at work on a novel. You can follow him on Twitter.

Daisy Christina Abreu is Co-Editor of Creative Non-Fiction. A first generation Cuban-American born and raised in New York and New Jersey, Daisy also serves as New Haven's Deputy Director of the Town Green Special Services District and is on the Board of Directors of the Institute Library and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Her essay “Back and Forth” will be published in the spring 2012 issue of Label Me Latina/o (http://labelmelatin.com/). You can read her latest work and thoughts on Write Here, Write Now, her blog (http://daisywrite.blogspot.com/).  

Brian Hoover

Brian Hoover, Mason's Road Craft Essay/Writing Exercise Editor, is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction and "thinks about writing all day long and invites you to parse that any way you wish."

When:
Friday, April 20, 2012
7 PM

Where:
Fairfield University Bookstore
1499 Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824

Phone:
203-255-7756