Events

Gerry Sloan Paper Lanterns     Join us on Februrary 23rd to meet and hear Gerry Sloan. Sloan’s first full-length book of poetry, Paper Lanterns, has just been published by Fayetteville’s Half Acre Press. Gerry Sloan’s poetry “orchestrates a life of observation and attention, of figurative ideas captured in verse, and of love for the things of this world. It is divided into suites linked thematically and delicately by family, politics, history, music, love, and loss. ‘I think about the crazy / creatures we’ve become— / our constant contradictions, / predilection for metaphor— / towns named after conditions / for the lives we share and are.’ Gerry Sloan’s command of metaphor, tone, and rhythm together with his keen eye for the contradictions of everyday life make for a powerful volume” (quote by Zohreh T. Sullivan). Gerry Sloan is a professor of music at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he has been teaching for over forty years.