Tod Marshall

I'm very happy to report that my friend Tod Marshall will be arriving in town this weekend for a reading at Powell's on Hawthorne. Tod is the author of two volumes of poetry, "Dare Say" and "The Tangled Line", and of a book of interviews with contemporary poets "Range of the Possible." He's also the editor of "Range of Voices," an anthology companion to "Range of the Possible." I first met Tod in, if memory serves, 1990, when he was an MFA student at Eastern Washington University. Since then we have been close friends despite his move from Spokane to Tennessee and back and my move from Spokane to Chicago to Portland. I deeply admire his poetry--what I can only characterize as serious, modern, and metaphysical. (Note--not postmodern.) I'm overjoyed that he and his wife Amy (a wonderful photographer) will be here. For more on Tod and his work visit Amazon and the link in my You Should Know About column. Also just Googling him turns up some interesting things, such as the following (which contains a copyright infringing duplication of one of his fine fine poems): http://dwitkowski.blogspot.com/2009/03/tangled-line-by-tod-marshall-from.html

Amy Sinisterra's work can be seen at her site: http://amysinisterra.com/. The kid photos are crazy good.

Come to Tod's reading, Monday, April 13, at Powell's on Hawthorne!

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