Rebecca Seiferle Reads at Grub Street Tonight

Rebecca Seiferle
Grub Street (160 Boylston)
7 pm
Free, with refreshments

Rebecca Seiferle, editor of Drunken Boat, reads her poetry at Grub Street tonight. The recipient of the 2008 Grub Street Book Prize for Wild Tongue, Seiferle has lived all over the U.S., including New Mexico, which she describes leaving in an interview:

When I left New Mexico, as we were driving and the sky split open with this lovely brief pelting rain so that the air was suddenly full of the scent of sagebrush and chamisa, all the dust washed out of the fronds of the junipers, the blue berries like darkly shining orbs, I thought that truly most of the time in that isolation, I was in love with the earth itself, that there was some way in all that space and openness that the eye/I lived in the sky, swimming through its depths, but also like a hand falling upon the horizon, the visible shape of the earth.

If that's not a compelling enough preview, check out her poems at the Wise Women's Web.