Poetry Reading: Award winning poet Judith Pacht will read from her new chapbook User’s Guide.In User's Guide, she weaves poems on the loom of the "instructions" we're given -- user's guides for gadgets like "the Handheld Germ-Eliminating Light" and "Circulation-Enhancing Travel Socks," among other things -- and in so doing offers a wry, sly, wickedly funny and deadly serious commentary on our culture of technology and consumption.
Steve McDonald is Dean of Languages and Literature at Palomar College in San Marcos, California,and a popular contributor to a variety of journals.His chapbook Where There Was No Pattern was a semi-finalist in the Finishing Line Press chapbook competition in 2007.