Poetry Abounds! with JULIE CHOFFEL & NICK COURTRIGHT

Poets
JULIE CHOFFEL
& NICK COURTRIGHT
present their work at BookPeople tonight!

Julie will read from her collection, The Hello Delay. 

Nick will read from his collection,
Punchline. 

Nick Courtright’s first book of poems, Punchline, was a National Poetry Award finalist and a book Boston Review editor Timothy Donnelly calls "nothing short of a knockout."  Punchline aims to assist poetry in reclaiming its age-old position as not just a literary form, but a means to ask humanity’s largest questions, and perhaps even offer some answers to our most profound (and confounding) spiritual problems.

Nick Courtright, a resident of East Austin, has had his writing appear in The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Iowa Review, and many others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, is available from Blue Hour Press. He’s Interviews Editor of the Austinist, and he teaches English, Humanities, and Philosophy at a number of local colleges and universities.

Julie Choffel's first collection of poems, The Hello Delay, was selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for the 2011 Poets Out Loud Prize. Choffel's work takes apart our language and puts it together again, opening the world of the everyday to make the familiar feel unreal and then intimately connect us with the impossible. The poems of The Hello Delay are like the voice in the back of your head, resisting common meaning and reminding us of the strangeness of living.

Julie Choffel was born and raised in Austin, studied geography at Texas State when it was called SWT, and graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She currently lives in Connecticut, where she teaches creative writing and dreams about breakfast tacos.

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