Poetry and Jazz featuring John Matthias's book launch "Acoustic Shadows"
Thu, Sep 05
|Merrimans' Playhouse
Join us for an evening of jazz, poetry, and book sale! This is also a fundraiser event: All proceeds from book sales go directly to the GRAND PIANO FUND DRIVE for Merrimans’ Playhouse!


Time & Location
Sep 05, 2019, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Merrimans' Playhouse, 1211 East Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN, USA
Guests
About the Event
Poetry and Jazz featuring John Matthias's book launch "Acoustic Shadows". FREE event.
Doors open at 7:30 with music by "The Merriman Trio featuring Jim Steele"
8:00 - 9:00: Readings by John Matthias, solo and with the trio.
9:00 - 9:30 ish: The trio will perform.
John Matthias taught creative writing and modern literature at the University of Notre Dame for forty years and continues to work as Editor at Large of Notre Dame Review. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he first went as Poetry Fellow in the 1970s. He has given readings of his poetry both nationally and internationally, and his work has been translated into several languages. Matthias has published some thirty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and literary criticism. His books include three volumes of Collected Poems and the recent collaborative volumes Revolutons (with printmaker Jean Dibble and critic Robert Archambeau) and…
Tickets
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Free event. Book purchase encouraged.
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