February 5, 2014, Wednesday - Mark Wunderlich Publication Launch at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mark Wunderlich Publication Launch

Graywolf Press poet Mark Wunderlich will read from his latest collection, The Earth Avails. The collection is a book of gratitude and a moving elegy for a way of life that now feels so absent from contemporary existence. Taking its title from an Anglo-Saxon bee charm, this book comes out of the deep tradition of writing down a poem, a letter, or a spell to mark particular occasions, or to magically protect someone from disease or harm, or to praise God for the bounties of the natural world. Rendered in part from folkloric and historical sources, Mark Wunderlich’s poems reinvent these traditions with lyrical and emotive force for a new century of readers.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of two previous poetry collections, Voluntary Servitude and The Anchorage, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He teaches at Bennington College and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.