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Wordflight Reading Series

WORDFLIGHT:FRITTON&TAYLOR

Poetry Reading
with Chris Fritton and Ed Taylor, with slots for open readers
Sponsored by Buffalo and Erie County Library, Crane Branch, Just Buffalo

Monday, Jun 11th @ 07:00 PM
Free and open to public

Crane Branch Library
633 Elmwood Avenue
Upstairs
Buffalo 14222
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Chris Fritton is a writer, artist, and book artist,  who holds 3 undergraduate degrees from University of Buffalo (in Philosophy, Art History, and Poetics) and a Masters in English/Poetics from University of Maine at Orono, where he graduated summa cum laude. He has been published in Oh One Arrow, Diagram 6.4, Pilot, Pataphysica, inn-box, Hotel St. George, Sleeping Fish, and elsewhere. He is editor of Ferrum Wheel Press and has 14 self-published books out from Ferrum Wheel Press.  
     Since 2006, Fritton has been the organizer of the annual Small Press Bookfair, a gargantuan undertaking. The bookfair has grown in size and reputation over the years, so much so that 110 presses/vendors signed up within 10 days for the 2011 version.                       He is the Studio Director at Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, and a writer and book-maker-in-residence for Just Buffalo's Writing with Light program.    He is the designer and printer for Mohawk Press, publisher, among other titles, of Richard Tuttle's 8 Poems in 2011, which Fritton designed, printed (hand-set), and hand-bound as an artist's book.
     Ed Taylor received a "Notable Read" designation in the latest Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology and was a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee.  He is the author of Idiogest and The Rubaiyat of Hazmat (BlazeVox Books).  His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in a number of U.S. and U.K. publications and anthologies, most recently in Mississippi Review Online, Willow Springs, North American Review, Southwest Review, and New Writing.  His writing has also appeared in art exhibitions at Antioch University in Los Angeles and Buffalo State College, and been featured on "Fiction in Shorts," a program of NPR-affiliate WXII in Rochester, NY.