September 9
Tuesday, 7 PM

Staged reading. Told through a series of seventy-six poems, Terry Wolverton’s new novel, Embers, is the story of Marie Girard, whose soul is trapped in Purgatory. Actors will bring to life the many voices within the story in staged excerpts of the larger work.

"Embers is at once dense and delicious, crammed with sorrow and drama, a marvelous American tale, a haunting work of art. The pure craft of the thing is fascinating and daunting. This is certainly Wolverton's masterpiece-- the poem, the novel, she was put on earth to write." - Carolyn See, author, Making a Literary Life

Terry Wolverton is the author of Bailey’s Beads, a novel and the poetry collections Mystery Bruise and Black Slip. Her fiction, poetry, essays and drama have been published in periodicals internationally, including Glimmer Train Stories, Zyzzyva, Many Mountains Moving, and The Jacaranda Review, and widely anthologized. She is also the author of a memoir, Insurgent Muse, published by City Lights Books.