Shari Andrews Reading Odd Sundays

Poetry reading: Shari Andrews featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series.

Sunday, February 4, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Shari Andrews, featured reader at odd sundays at molly’s: She pays tender attention to the past. Shari Andrews’ poetry dives into memory through the lens of the everyday—a clothespin, a flapping sheet, a porcelain cup. From Oberon in 1999, Andrews’ The Stone Cloak captures the nineteenth century story of her great grandparents’ move from Denmark to New Brunswick. Bones About to Bloom , also from Oberon (2001), won the Baily Prize from the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. Crucible (2004, Oberon), illuminates the life of St. Catherine of Siena, beginning with the little girl who devotes her life to Christ, and to a mystical brand of Catholicism that influences both the religion and politics of her day: “glory grasped/just long enough to recognize,/the serpent’s bite” (p 79). Andrews’ poems shimmer with reverence and startling metaphor: “the flat of his right hand/is a doorstop jammed against/the heart of Christ” —taken from Walking the Sky, (2005, Oberon) p 27.

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Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, February 4, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon of poetry. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)