Tonight 11-22: Matthew Simmons and Daniel Bailey at Ampersand

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Matthew Simmons and Daniel Bailey (Ampersand, @7:00pm): Tonight marks the first in what we hope to be periodic readings at Ampersand.  Fiction writer Matthew Simmons will read from A Jello Horse, which was recently published by Baltimore-based Publishing Genius & got a great review in The Believer. Poet Daniel Bailey will read from his book of poems, The Drunk Sonnets, published by the Magic Helicopter Press. “From forgiveness in a beehive to tiny banquets for retired janitors, Bailey’s fifty-three sonnets combine formal constraint with unfettered caterwauling. This is contemporary poetic sincerity that is not too shy to see the heart, to eat the heart, to carry a heart and hold it when it catches a shake.”

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.