Literary Firsts

I was so thrilled to have another tremendous group of writers for Literary Firsts on Monday. In the immortal words of J.F. Lynch, “If you weren’t there, if you didn’t see it, you missed out.”

However, through the magic of video and the internet, now you can pretend you were there when Michael Hoerman, Terri Trespicio, Matthew Salesses, and Liam Day kicked off 2012 with a bang.

First, the still images:

Michael Hoerman reads his poetry.

Terri Trespicio reads her essay, "Unhitched but Not Unhappy"

Matthew Salesses reads excerpts from "The Last Repatriate"

Liam Day reads his confessional essay.

And now, the moving pictures.

See you in April!

Matthew Salesses is a disco ball under black light. (photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell)

Matthew Salesses is the author of a novella, The Last Repatriate (Nouvella Books), and two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics (PANK) and We Will Take What We Can Get (Publishing Genius), both free online. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Witness, American Short Fiction, Pleiades, The Literary Review, and others. He writes a column and edits fiction for the Good Men Project. He is a new father, not counting cats.

Matthew is the fiction writer for the January 23 reading.

Thanks, as always, to Randolph for classing up this operation via his design prowess.