Afaa Weaver Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)

Afaa Weaver has published nine collections of poetry, had two professional theater productions, published short fiction, and served as editor of Obsidian III, based at North Carolina State University. His short fiction appears in Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night, the sequel to Langston Hughes' anthology, Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. Books include Stations in a Dream (Dolphin Moon Press), Timber and Prayer (University of Pittsburgh), Talisman (Tia Chucha Press/Northwestern University), The Ten Lights of God (Bucknell University Press), Sandy Point (The Press of Appletree Alley) and Multitudes (Sarabande Books). He has given readings in the U.S., Great Britain, France, China, and Taiwan.

Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu