Hey Gang,
I hope everybody’s doing well and gearing up for (hopefully)
an abbreviated work week. I’ve posted a few times about the upcoming reading at
Winder Binder on Dec. 4th. Here’s some information that Brother Ray
Zimmerman provided for the event. Enjoy:
Winder Binder Gallery and Bookstore
40 Frazier Avenue
Sunday, December 4
2 PM to 4 PM
For your friends who like to read, books make the perfect
gift. Join local authors for dynamic readings and recitations of their work. Many
of the participating writers have published books available for purchase at
Winder Binder.
Finn Bille, author or Fire Poems and contributor to Southern
Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets. Finn has been writing, reading,
teaching, publishing, and promoting poetry since his teenage years in Copenhagen,
Denmark. The
International People’s College in Elsinore, Denmark,
published his chapbook, Waking Dreams (1986). His collection of poems, Rites of
the Earth, appeared in 1994 with notes on each poem and an article on revision.
Bille has published about eighty poems individually in various magazines and
anthologies. Fire Poems appeared in 2011.
Ray Zimmerman Executive Editor and contributor to Southern
Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets. Ray is a former president of the
Chattanooga Writers Guild and won Second Place
in the 2007 poetry contest of the Tennessee Writers Alliance. His chapbook,
Searching for Cranes, received favorable commentary in Bloomsbury Review. He
has organized poetry readings at Pasha Coffee House and other Chattanooga
venues. Ray was the subject of a feature article in the September 2008 issue of
Blush Magazine. He read from Southern Light at the Southern Festival of Books
in Nashville, Tennessee
in October of 2011.
Christian Collier, author of Ghosts and Echoes. Christian J.
Collier was born in Slidell, LA
and attended the University of Tampa.
He is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Ghosts & Echoes. His works
have appeared in Oysters & Chocolate, DEBACLE, The New Writer and other
literary publications. He is also the founder, promoter, and host of The
Speakeasy poetry open-mic and the MANIFEST arts showcase in Chattanooga,
TN. In 2011, Mr. Collier was featured on
the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel. The site prides itself on featuring
the best spoken word artists working in the field.
Bruce Majors, author of The Fields of Owl Roost and
contributor to Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets. Bruce grew
up in East Tennessee, graduated from Tennessee
Technological University,
and retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has published poems in Arts
and Letters, Pinesong, The Distillery, River Poets Journal, Number One, and
other literary journals. His book, The Fields of Owl Roost, is an
autobiographical collection of loosely related poems that has been said to
capture the eccentricity of our imperfect world. It was named first finalist in
the 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Marsha Matthews, author of Northbound
Single Lane and Sunglow and a Touch of Nottingham
Lace.
Helga Kidder, contributor to Southern Light, Twelve
Contemporary Southern Poets received a BA in English from the University
of Tennessee and an MFA in Writing
from Vermont College.
She is a co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and leads their poetry
group. Her poetry and translations have been published in many journals and
anthologies. Her chapbook Gravel was published by Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks,
UTC, Chattanooga, in 1994. Her
chapbook Why I Reach for the Stars was a finalist in the Firewheel Chapbook
competition.
Penny Dyer is the recipient of the 2007 Oberon Poetry Prize
and the 2006 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry. Her work also appears in
Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost, Southern Reader, Poems
Niederngasse, SouthLit, Arsenic Lobster, Dogwood, Oberon, New Millennium
Writings and Narrative. Penny writes in several genres and is at work on a
poetry collection, Awaiting the Fall of Babylon, and a novel, How Sweet the
Sound. Her poem “Summer Storm, 1963” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She
read her poems from Southern Light at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville,
Tennessee, in July of 2011.
Rebecca Cook writes poetry and prose and has published in
many literary journals, including New England Review, Northwest Review, New
Orleans Review, Wicked Alice, Midwest Quarterly, Story South, and Quarter After Eight. A two-time Pushcart
nominee, she was awarded a writer’s residency at Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony
in 2005, and she was a Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction at the 2009 Bread
Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, is
available from Dancing Girl Press. She teaches creative writing and literature
at the University of Tennessee
Chattanooga.