The Sound of Poets Cooking
editor Richard Krawiec
Jacar Press, 2010, 172 pages
ISBN: 9780984574001
Featuring work by five dozen poets, including NC Poet Laureates Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer, and dozens of other nationally celebrated writers. The poems alternate with recipes written by the poets, their family members, lovers and friends. The writing is at turns sensuous, hilarious, elegant, and playful. The recipes range from Asian, through European, to Middle Eastern dishes, as well as regional favorites from across the U.S.--tiramisu, homemade curry, vegetarian meals, exotic seafood, some simple, some complex. There is something here for every palate, literary and culinary.
Proceeds from the sales of this book will be used to fund writing workshops in excluded communities.
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"The first step in Alan Summers' Rosehip Curry recipe (yum!) is to write for several hours in a walled garden in direct sunlight."
Wild Goose Poetry review says:
"The Sound of Poets Cooking is a new, 172-page anthology of poems about food accompanied by related recipes, from Krawiec’s fledgling press, Jacar Press. And it is an impressive debut, featuring wonderful work from poets both familiar and new, including two NC Poets Laureate, Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer ... and more, wrapped in a clever cover with an image of Buddha cradling a pomegranate, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potato, chef’s knife and some spiky yellow fruit I’m not familiar with, appealingly conveying the mixture of spirituality and whimsy one might expect from poetry about food."
North American Readings for 2010 and 2011
by Richard Krawiec and other poets
Oct 23, 3pm Greensboro Barnes and Noble,– Mark Smith-Soto Coordinator
Nov 6, Bookwalk Washington, NC – Marty Silverthrone
Nov 7, 3pm Quail Ridge Books Raleigh – Richard Krawiec
Nov 13, 7pm – Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill – Richard Krawiec
Nov 14, 3pm Malaprops, Asheville – Pat Riviere-Seel
Nov 18, 8pm ECU – John Hoppenthaler - Richard Krawiec if you want to carpool
Dec 3, 7pm – The Regulator – Richard Krawiec
Dec 10 (possibly) 6pm, Accent on Books, Asheville – Pat Riviere-Seel
2011
April 3, 3pm City Lights Books, Sylva, April Poetry Month kick-off – me for
now but someone else will be handling the local aspect
April 14, 7:30pm. Central Piedmont Community College Literary Festival,
Charlotte. This will be a big event, combined with culinary students there
cooking recipes – Richard Krawiec for now
April 23 all day event at Barton College, including readings, workshops, and
a concert by Fleur de Lisa – Richard Krawiec for now
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