Join us in the bookstore at 7pm, immediately following Homer Out Loud, for an author talk with Maria Zoccola and Dallas poet Pierre Minar.

Maria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Helen of Troy, 1993 is her debut poetry collection.

Pierre Minar was born in Lebanon and grew up in New Jersey. His work has appeared in Hobart, a collection called Giant Robot Poems by Middle West Press, and a chapbook called Transmissions From My Yearning Chair by Bottlecap Press. When he is not writing poems he investigates Medicare fraud by big companies on behalf of the government. He lives in Dallas with his son.