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Fisherman's Blues Dinner Party: Fundraiser for Anna Badkhen
Friends of Anna Badkhen will host a fundraising event to help cover her costs to research her next book, FISHERMAN'S BLUES, which will chronicle of the life of a family of Senegalese artisanal fishermen during a fishing season. To research it, Badkhen will, starting this fall, spend several months living with fishermen in Senegal. Intimate, hyper-impressionistic, meticulously researched, the book will be a kind of documentary prose poetry, illustrated with hand-drawn sketches. It will be published by Riverhead in 2017.
Lori Waselchuk, Kevin Varrone and Pattie McCarthy will host the fundraiser at Kevin and Pattie's beautifully renovated barn and adjacent garden in Ardmore PA. We will serve a Senegalese dinner and homemade sweets. Anna will read from her latest book, WALKING WITH ABEL, and answer questions about her work. We will be serenaded by a West African DJ.
Books and prints will also be on sale. Badkhen and Waselchuk collaborated to create a limited-edition portfolio of prints of Badkhen's sketches that were used to illustrate WALKING WITH ABEL. The fine-art print portfolio, individual prints and books will be on sale at the event.
Anna Badkhen is the author of five books and has written about wars on four continents, including the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Chechnya. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Guernica, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. She lives in Philadelphia.
Lori Waselchuk is a Philadelphia-based, award-winning documentary photogapher. Waselchuk's work has been published and exhibited internationally. She is the author of GRACE BEFORE DYING (Umbrage Editions, 2011).
Kevin Varrone received his M.A. in poetry in 1997. He is the author of the chapbook G-POINT ALMANAC (6/21-9/21) (ixnay press, 2000), ID EST (G-POINT ALMANAC 9/22-12-20) (Instance Press, 2007), and EEPHUS (Ugly Duckling Presse, X). In collaboration with poetry and programmer Vlad Zykov, he created BOX SCORE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, an app for iPad and iPhone that features poems from Eephus paired with collages. He is co-founder of Beautiful Swimmer Press. He teaches at Temple University.
Pattie McCarthy is the author of six books of poetry: NULLS (horse less press 2014), and five from Apogee Press: QUIET BOOK (2015), MARYBONES (2012), TABLE ALPHABETICAL OF HARD WORDS (2010), VERSO (2004), and bk of (h)rs (2002). She has also published a dozen chapbooks, most recently x y z && (Ahsahta Press 2015). She was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 2011. In the summer of 2013, McCarthy was an artist-in-residence at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia. She has been teaching at Temple University since 2004.
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LocationKevin Varrone & Pattie McCarthy's Backyard Barn (View)
416 E Athens Ave.
Ardmore, PA 19003
United States
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