A Night with Joseph Coulson May 22, 2007

Joseph Coulson, author of The Vanishing Moon, will read from his darkly moving second novel, Of Song and Water. Join Coulson as he shares this Great Lakes story of hidden truths and unfulfilled dreams with jazz scenes that "crackle with energy and authority" (Publishers Weekly).

Admission: Free
Call (612) 374-4023 for more information.
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About the Author:
Joseph Coulson, novelist, poet, and playwright, was born in Detroit in 1957. His first novel, The Vanishing Moon (2004) was selected for the Barnes & Noble Great New Writers series and won the Book of the Year Award, Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, from ForeWord Magazine. Coulson is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Letting Go, A Measured Silence, and Graph. His first play, A Saloon at the Edge of the World (co-authored with William Relling, Jr.), a noir drama showcased by Theater Artists of Marin, won both popular and critical acclaim in the San Francisco Bay area. Coulson has been the recipient of a Gray Writing Fellowship (selected by Robert Creeley) and a Ph.D. in American literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. A teacher for many years, he recently served as Editorial Director for the Great Books Foundation in Chicago. He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.