Green Line presents another gathering of the literary for our monthly poetry readings. This month, we gladly introduce Cindy Savett and Ray Garman, who will be reading from and signing their respective new books. As usual, the meeting will be hosted by Leonard Gontarek and Lisa Grunberger and held at the cafe on 45th and Locust Streets. For information, please call 215.808.9507
POETRY AT GREEN LINE CAFÉ
45TH & LOCUST STREETS
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 7 PM
About the authors:
Cindy Savett, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. She is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, 26 Magazine, Cutbank, and Free Verse. She is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Additionally, Cindy has served on several school Boards and other non-profit agencies. She spent fifteen years in the retail business, traveling extensively overseas. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.
Ray Garman, reading his recently published book, Crossing Waters
Ray Garman is a poet and photographer, an activist and entrepreneur. Ray has read and performed his works around the world, including Robin’s Bookstore (Philadelphia), Bowery Poetry Club (New York), Nuyorican Poets Café (New York), Neither Nor (New York), Knitting Factory (New York), Shakespeare & Company (Paris), City Lights (San Francisco), Fringe Club (Hong Kong), St. Mark’s Poetry Project (New York), La MaMa Theatre (New York), Nell’s (New York), The Café (Nairobi), Burning Man ( Black Rock City ), along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and with the forest of drums, and rainbows, gathering.
Ray is the author of Crossing Waters published by Whirlwind Press. He is a father and a graduate of Haverford College.
What’s being said about Crossing Waters:
“When language wanted to cross the Styx, ford the Amazon, end up on the other side of the Liffey, and reconnoiter the Yangtze, it called upon the ultimate explorer. His name: Ray Garman. His game: it ain’t a game. His preoccupation: today, now, in your hands, folks, c’mon now, let me introduce you to What Happens to Poetry when it takes you for a ride that’s as far as you want to go, as near as your ear, and in the din of dumb, a smart, tart response. Let’s journey to liquid land, into effervescent streaming, torment torrent.”
- Bob Holman
“In his first book of poems, Crossing Waters, Ray Garman asks “Where would the truth live if it were absolutely honest?” Couched in a frame of seasons, he makes an effort to take us to that place where truth would live and reminds us along the way, “All children/one village/one soul” as he “struggles in this life/for peace/in another.” Even with its carnality, Waters is one man’s personal scripture as he travels the distance to the light.”
- Lamont B. Steptoe
“The poems of Crossing Waters navigate the troubled passages a man encounters when life as he wishes it to be is swept away. Here is the white water of disaster, the cross-current of resistance, but also “a certain spacious expanse” of insight and love that opens into “bigwinds and horizons.” In these sometimes jazzy blues, Ray Garman sings into the soul’s atmosphere.”
- J. C. Todd
“Ray Garman’s poetry knows by breathing. From there he knows his own life and the world around him, which is international. His childhood experience – Spring – his Summer, “Out of Breath” – his Autumn – “Gasped Breath” – his Winter – “Recollected Breath”, all are connected to our troubled globe. Although he is not yet in his Winter (of his discontent?) his poems radiate with senses of the seasons and the most subtle passages of time, and the beauty of the seasons.”
- Justin Vitiello
Tuesday, May 19, Ditta Baron Hoeber & Anisa Rahim
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