Jul 9 | The Scream book-length reading: Margaret Christakos's Excessive Love Prostheses

A crowd favorite, the Scream Literary Festival's annual book-length dinner reading with Margaret Christakos reading from her book, Excessive Love Prostheses. The dinner will feature creative catering inspired by Christakos’ text. (Vegetarian options available.)

The heart, writes Margaret Christakos, is 'a public organ of private damage.' Winner of the 2003 ReLit Award, Excessive Love Prostheses takes the confessional lyric poem and runs it through Kathy Acker's Cuisinart. The poems confess, rather than deride, the complexities of contemporary desire, describing a subject that is both public and private, physical and virtual.

A Prairie of the Appetite: Margaret Christakos's Excessive Love Prostheses
book-length reading and dinner
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Women's Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur Avenue
7 p.m.
Tickets: $35 (before July 3) / $45 (afterward)