5 pm - 9 pm

FREE Poetry-Collection Release + Bug Jar's 20th Anniversary

Please stop down to The Bug Jar early on Saturday, April 30th.
We will celebrate our 20th Anniversary tonight, and we're kicking
it off with the launch of a new book of poems by local author
and RIT English Professor, John Roche. Here's some press about
the new release:

"An unexpected treasure, ROAD GHOSTS is an on-the-ground poetic document of radicalized students coming of age in the late 60s & early 70s. Its clarity of external & internal detail is often startling. Its detached camera eye lucidly documents the process of portent, pretense & Utopian fervor associated with that brief opening in U.S. dissident cultures & the generational clashes inspired by idealism, psychedelics, & quest fever. It's a profound personal essay on being & becoming"—David Meltzer.

Essentially, it's sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, the US dissident movement of the 60's and 70's crystallized in a new series of poems. Bug Jar fare dressed up in a suit of paper and ink!

For more information on John's collection of poems, visit SPD Books: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780964734296/road-ghosts.aspx

There will be music and poetry preceding and following the initial reading.

Poets include:

SUSAN DEER CLOUD
PATRICIA ROTH SCHWARTZ
GRACE FLORES
EDDIE SWAYZE
KARLA LINN MERRIFIELD
LORI NOLASCO
COLLEEN POWDERLY
MONTY CAMPBELL
ANITA AUGESEN
SEAN McMANUS

And music by:

THE HANDMADE ORCHESTRA
BOX & WHISKER
BEN & MAEVE MAC AN TUILE
ED & IAN DOWNEY

Local Rockers Hinkley, Veluxe, and Nick Young & Burning Daylight will kick off tunes at 9:30 pm.

Come down and support local art, music, and your favorite venue's 20th Anniversary!