Chelsea Rathburn will read for the Modern Metrics Series on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 4 pm at
The Shooting Star Theatre
(at South Street Seaport between Front and South
Streets)
40 Peck Slip, Third Floor
New York, NY 10038
Chelsea Rathburn's poems have appeared in
The Hudson
Review, The New Criterion, The Cincinnati Review, and
River Styx, among other journals and anthologies. A
native of Miami, she studied poetry at Florida State
University and the University of Arkansas, where she
received an MFA in 2001.
Her first full-length collection of poetry,
The Shifting Line, received the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award and was published by The University of Evansville Press. She is also author of a limited edition chapbook,
Unused Lines, published by Aralia Press in 2003. A freelance marketing writer, she lives in Atlanta.
Ray Pospisil will host and admission is $5. There will
be an Open for metrical poems as well.
Theatre information:
718.852.7773
www.shootingstartheatre.org
Directions to Peck Slip in Manhattan:
By subway, take the 2, 3, 4, or 5 to Fulton Street, or
A or C to Broadway/Nassau. Walk East on Fulton
(towards the South Street Seaport). Turn left on Pearl
Street, walk two blocks (Beekman and then Peck Slip).
Turn right on Peck Slip.
By bus, take the #M15 at Second Avenue downtown to
Peck Slip.
On Saturday, May 19, Joshua Mehigan will feature at Modern Metrics: more later!
[This message has been edited by Terese Coe (edited March 27, 2007).]