Edward Carvalho Poetry Reading and Book Release Party
Mar 24, 2007, 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
The Commonplace Coffeehouse is pleased to be sponsoring 
the release of IUP doctoral student Edward Carvalho's collection of contemporary poetry, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. A 30 minute reading will begin shortly after 7 P.M., after which copies of the book will be available for purchase for $12.95.
10% of net book sale proceeds will be donated to Indiana's Alice Paul House, which provides support for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other serious crime.
About Edward Carvalho
Edward Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet (2004-2005) and author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short from Fine Tooth Press. His poems--once described as "original, innovative,imaginative and brutal"--have appeared along with his essays, reviews and critical papers in numerous journals around the country.
He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College (2006) and is currently researching the poetry of Walt Whitman while enrolled as a doctoral student in the Literature and Criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is also the recent recipient of that university's Twentieth Annual IUP Doctoral Fellowship and employed there as editorial assistant for the Works and Days journal.
Please visit edwardjcarvalho.com for more information.
