Poet, Novelist J.P. White Reads from his Novel, "Every Boat Turns South" October 3, 2009

Minnesota poet, writer and sailor J.P. White will be read from his debut novel, Every Boat Turns South at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis.

Every Boat Turns South (Permanent Press) is a modern sailing thriller, the story of Matt Younger, a 30-year-old boat delivery captain, who returns to Florida from the Dominican Republic to make a confession to his dying father. It is a meditation on dying, love and forgiveness, and an adventure odyssey of the wayward flesh and the returning spirit, and on how one re-invents and denies the past in order to redeem the present.

J.P. White spent his childhood summers sailing on Lake Erie. In the early 1980s, he worked delivering sailboats up and down the Eastern seaboard, to the Bahamas and the Caribbean. He currently sails a Cape Dory 25D out of St. Louis Bay on Lake Minnetonka, near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In the last 30 years, J.P. White has published essays, articles, fiction, reviews, interviews and poetry in more than 100 publications including The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry (Chicago). He is a graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, Colorado State University and Vermont College. He is the author of four books of poems. Every Boat Turns South is his first novel.

Visit J.P. White online at www.jpwhite.net.

Official Website: http://www.jpwhite.net