Danny Caine and Erika Meitner

Join us as we welcome our friend and colleague in bookselling, Danny Caine (Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas). Danny is on tour for his new book of poetry, Picture Window! He will be joined with local poet Erika Meitner. Reserve your copy for any of their books below!

 

Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental BreakfastEl Dorado Freddy'sFlavortown, and Picture Window, as well as the book How to Resist Amazon and Why. His poetry has appeared in The SlowdownDIAGRAMHAD, and Barrelhouse, and his prose has appeared in Literary Hub and Publishers Weekly. In 2019, he received the Midwest Independent Bookstore Association Midwest Bookseller of the Year award. He's a co-owner of the Raven Book Store, Publishers Weekly's 2022 bookstore of the year.

 

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her newest book, Useful Junk, was published by BOA Editions in April of 2022. Meitner’s poems have been anthologized widely, and have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry, Orion, The Believer, and elsewhere. Other honors include fellowships from MacDowell, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Blue Mountain Center, and Bethany Arts Community. She was also the 2015 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast, and is currently a 2022 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellow. Meitner is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can find out more about her at erikameitner.com.

 

Event date: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
1373 N Milwaukee Ave
first floor business
CHICAGO, IL 60622
Picture Window By Danny Caine Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781957392134
Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Autofocus Books - January 31st, 2023

Flavortown By Danny Caine Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780578876344
Availability: Not in Stock... Available to ship in 3-5 days

Published: Harpoon Books - May 4th, 2021

How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! By Danny Caine Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781648411236
Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Microcosm Publishing - September 20th, 2022

Continental Breakfast By Danny Caine Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780996103770
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Mason Jar Press - April 1st, 2019

Useful Junk By Erika Meitner Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781950774531
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Published: BOA Editions - April 5th, 2022

Holy Moly Carry Me By Erika Meitner Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781942683629
Availability: Not in Stock... Available to ship in 3-5 days

Published: BOA Editions - September 11th, 2018