9-15-08 Week Three Next Years VWS Round One

Today we began a sharing our picks for next years authors. I did not know how to go about picking my two author suggestions because I am not particularly familiar with the kind of writers TCNJ would have at the Visiting Writers Series. So I looked over the speaker schedule I received at the Brooklyn Book Festival and found a series of readings called "Brooklyn in the House" that featured local readers. I saw a name I remembered from the anthology Legitimate Dangers that I remember Trisha presenting on, Nick Flynn.
It was the poem we called "Emo" in class. I read his work in the anthology and did some research. He has an interesting bio, including homelessness. Apparently he wrote an acclaimed memoir about being homeless that from the excerpts I read looks artful and well written.