Sundays@4: Vincent Cellucci & Rodger Kamenetz
Baton Rouge Gallery 1442 City Park Ave, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808
As part of its Sundays@4 series, Baton Rouge Gallery invites writers Vincent Cellucci and Rodger Kamenetz for readings from each of their newest books, published by Lavender Ink.
Cellucci will read from his lyric poetry collection, Absence Like Sun (2019), which presents a paradoxical worldview orbiting around the idea of the sun's warmth as an absence. Recurring themes of this collection, which examines the writer's relationship with Louisiana regionalism, include haunting homelessness, filiation/affiliation, post-Katrina New Orleans, Christian myth, and the paradoxes of the universe. Other works by Cellucci include An Easy Place/To Die (CityLit Press, 2011), come back river (Finishing Line Press, 2014), and _A Ship on the Line (Unlikely Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.
Kamenetz will read from his recent collection of prose poetry Yonder, which pays homages to forebears of the genre Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Russel Edson, and Kafka. The poet, author, essayist, biographer, religious thinker, and dreamwork practitioner is best known for his breakthrough account of Jewish-Buddhist dialogue, The Jew and the Lotus. Other works include The History of Last Night's Dream, The Missing Jew, Stuck, The Lowercase Jew, and To Die Next to You.
This event is free and open to the public. 4 pm–5:30 pm. batonrougegallery.org.