Reading and Q & A with poet Chad Faries next Friday, April 29, at the Four Winds, 6pm

There will be a reading and Q & A at 6pm on next Friday, April 29, at the Four Winds Cafe with distinguished poet and memoirist Chad Faries.  The event is free and open to the public.  Everyone is welcome!

Chad Faries was raised mostly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but lived in 24 houses by the time he was 10 years old. These experiences are chronicled in his forthcoming memoir, Drive Me Out of My Mind  (Emergency Press, June 2011) . His poetry collection, The Border Will Be Soon, was the winner of the Emergency Press open book competition in 2005. The Book of Knowledge, a poetry collection whose design and contents were inspired by a 1911 children’s encyclopedia, was recently published by Vulgar Marsala Press. He has published poems, essays, photographs, interviews, and creative non-fiction in Exquisite Corpse, Southeast Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street, The Hawaii Review, Afterimage, Post Road, and others. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a Fulbright Fellow in Budapest. He has lived extensively and taught in Central Europe. Currently he is an Asst. Professor at Savannah State University where he also hosts a theme-based storytelling and music program on WHCJ 90.3 .  He now owns a house in Thunderbolt, GA but lives abroad and gets lost on his motorcycle whenever he can.  More info can be found at www.chadfaries.com.