Rain Taxi Reading Series
Rain Taxi sponsors a reading series as a further demonstration of its commitment to literary culture. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
FORTHCOMING 2010 EVENTS
March 3: Mellis & Vossler | April 29: Howe & Grubbs | May 14: Midwestern Poetry
Miranda Mellis & Megan Vossler
Wednesday, March 3 at 6:30 pm
Franklin Art Works
1021 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis
Join us for a special event presented in conjunction with Megan Vossler’s art exhibition, Sound Signals. Both the artist and visiting author Miranda Mellis will be present at this unique book club discussion about Mellis’s acclaimed 2007 novella, The Revisionist. Along with a brief reading by Mellis, Vossler will explain the impact of the book on the works in the exhibition, and a lively discussion and reception will follow. Books are available at a discounted price through Franklin Art Works, but please feel free to attend even if you haven’t read the book!
About The Revisionist & Miranda Mellis
The Revisionist describes a character who conducts covert surveillance within an anonymous city, whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophic weather, political corruption, and environmental degradation. Hired to spin, or 'revise,' the facts, the revisionist's perceptions in turn become detached and distorted—inevitably unreliable, yet all the same, revealing.
Miranda Mellis was raised in San Francisco and is a founding editor at The Encyclopedia Project. Her writing has appeared in numerous places, including Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, and elsewhere. The Revisionist was widely reviewed upon its appearance and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller in 2007.
The connection with Sound Signals
With a haunting resonance to Mellis’s tale, Vossler's large-scale drawings present an epically scaled landscape dotted with human figures, caribou, trees, and the shadow of a hovering helicopter—all reassessing their positions within an environment that has been altered by an unknown catastrophe. Much like the landscape inhabited by Mellis’s characters, the places through which Vossler’s figures move is marked by signs of ruin, including collapsed buildings, piles of rubble, scorched trees, and a flooded canyon.
Co-sponsored by Franklin Art Works—don't miss it!
Susan Howe and David Grubbs
Thursday, April 29
co-sponsored by the Walker Art Center
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A Celebration of Midwestern Poetry
Friday, May 14
co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
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