The Performing Arts Studio presents Fred Alsberg reading his poetry in the Norman Depot, 200 South Jones, on Sunday, December 9.  Beginning at 2:00 PM, Second Sunday Poetry Readings are held each month.  There is no admission charge.  Light refreshments are served.

Fred Alsberg’s work has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Kansas Quarterly, Oregon East, Rhino, Greensboro Review, Sundog, Louisiana Review, Oklahoma Today, Pennine Ink, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Reassembling Dust, was published by Pudding House Publications (2007). He has poems forthcoming in Talking River and has done readings accompanied by acoustic and electric jazz piano.

Those attending can also enjoy Color/Light/Vision: The Paintings of Brad Price, on exhibit  through January 27. 

A Winter Wind Concert with singer/songwriter Ellis Paul, is offered in the Depot the evening of December 9, beginning at 7:00.  Tickets are $20.  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