Thursday, October 18 at 7pm

Please join us at the next Powell's North reading featuring the poets Michael Heller and Norman Finkelstein and an emerging author from the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Michael Heller is a poet and literary critic. Heller is the author of several volumes of poetry including Accidental Center, In The Builded Place, Wordflow, and Exigent Futures. Most recently is a volume of criticism Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities award. He lives in New York City.

Norman Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. Finkelstein's books of poetry include Restless Messengers, and the three volume serial poem Track: Track (1999), Columns (2002), and Powers (2005). Titles of his criticism include The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Literature, and Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity among others. Finkelstein is currently a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH.