Open Poetry Reading
May 1, 2022 4-6 PM
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Sunday, April 24, 3-5 PM.
Open Youth Poetry Reading
April 10, 2022 2-4 PM
Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell by Gabriel Hart
This collection of 20 fast-paced short stories cut to the quick. There’s death, there’s suicide, there’s alcoholism, there’s hopeless drug addiction. And, there are precious few characters to actually look up to. Hart provides a gutter lever glimpse of humanity that is not unlike a hideous car wreck; they’re simply too awful to look away from. Infidelity gone awry, botched contract killings, glorification of the anti-hero, out-patient sex change operations, an entire town’s economy propped up by dog fighting, invention of a drug that takes the user so high that death is the only thing left to experience. A delicious and dizzying display of debauchery, dysfunction, and despicableness that leaves you shocked, occasionally revolted, and constantly turning the pages.
Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell defies genre description. Are these stories punk, pulp, speculative, or heroin chic? At times they’re equal measures of all, and at other times they’re none of the above, but at all times they’re thoroughly entertaining. As Thompson would say: “Buy the ticket, take the ride.” You won’t be disappointed.
Open Poetry Reading
April 3, 2022 2-4 PM
