THE BURNING CHAIR

Graham Foust & Sawako Nakayasu
Friday, January 19th, 7 :30 PM
The Fall Café
307 Smith Street
between Union & President
Carroll Garden, Brooklyn
F or G to Carroll Street
FREE


Graham Foust was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The author of three books of poetry--the most recent of which is Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007)—he lives in Oakland, California with his wife and son.

Sawako Nakayasu is currently writing about, through, on, around and with ants and other insects, but mostly ants. She was born in Yokohama, Japan, and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. Her books include Nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she, (Quale Press), So we have been given time Or, (Verse Press), and Clutch (Tinfish). Her most recent publications include a book of translations of Japanese women poets in Four From Japan, as well as a chapbook of translations of Sagawa Chika's poems, from Seeing Eye Books.

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