Fred Alsberg will be the featured poet at the April 13 Performing Arts Studio Second Sunday Poetry Reading.  There is no admission charge for the reading, which begins at 2:00 pm in the Norman Depot, 200 South Jones Avenue.  Light refreshments will be served.

Alsberg’s work has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Kansas Quarterly, Oregon East, Rhino, Greensboro Review, Sundog, Louisiana Review, Oklahoma Today, Pennine Ink, and elsewhere. He has poems forthcoming in Talking River and has done readings accompanied by acoustic and electric jazz piano.

His most recent book of poetry, Reassembling Dust, was published by Pudding House Publications (2007) and was a finalist this year for the Oklahoma Center for the Book award in Poetry.

Alsberg is an English professor at Southwestern University in Weatherford and, for many years,  was the poetry editor of that university’s literary journal. 

PAS invites all who are interested in poetry to attend this reading.  It promises to be outstanding.

The final Winter Wind Concert of the season featuring singer/songwriter Johnsmith, is scheduled the evening of April 13, beginning at 7:00 pm.  Winter Wind tickets are $10.  Advance ticket purchase is recommended.

For additional information, phone The Performing Arts Studio at 307-9320.

Paperweight

Eight floors down
in a snow-covered parking lot,
a car is sawing itself free.

It leaves a black space its own shape,
then fishtails into the street
where traffic creeps as though underwater.

The whole city is submerged,
and snowflakes filter down
like fishfood in an aquarium,

to where people walk free of their footprints.

Fred Alsberg