Literary Café: Kester, Ross, and Kessel
September’s Literary Café will feature the acclaimed writings of Gunilla Kester, Gary Earl Ross, and Joyce Kessel – Starting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2.
The Just Buffalo Literary Café —held the first Wednesday of each month at the Center for Inquiry—features authors and poets, and usually includes open-reading slots for up to ten readers. Please note: There will be no open slots in September, October, and November at the Literary Café. The Café will focus instead on three noteworthy writers per month. The following are September’s featured readers:
Gunilla Kester, Ph.D , is the author of Time of Sand and Teeth , nominated for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She was a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2009 and was nominated for a 2010 Puschcart Prize from Not Just Air. Her poetry appears in Poetic Voices Without Borders I and II as well as Nickel City Nights . She is also a member of the Buffalo State College Rooftop Poetry Club . Her music CD, Songs of Healing and Hope , was released in 2006. The CD features Kester and Temple Beth Am Cantor Susan Wehle, who died Feb. 12 in the Flight 3407 tragedy in Clarence Center.
Gary Earl Ross is a professor at the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center and the award-winning author of more than 170 published short stories, poems, articles, scholarly papers, and public radio essays. His books and staged plays include Tales Macabre and Curious , Sleepwalker: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , Dots (children’s book), The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings , and Matter of Intent . Ross was recently named playwright-in-residence at the Ujima Company and was awarded a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting. He is the winner of the Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Award and the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America.
Joyce Kessel has been a member of Earth’s Daughters since 1989. Her work has appeared on Western New York Metro buses through Swift Kick, and in Black Mountain II Review , Pure Light , Earth’s Daughters , A Room of Our Own , and Reader’s Quarterly . She teaches literature, writing, fine arts, and interdisciplinary courses at Villa Maria College and reviews audio books for Library Journal. Kessel participated in the Rustbelt Roethke Professional Writer’s Workshop in summer 2009.
The Just Buffalo Literary Café is free and open to the public. The Center for Inquiry/Transnational is located at 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, N.Y., across the street from University at Buffalo North Campus. Plenty of free on-site parking is available.
For more information, contact Henry Huber at (716) 636-4869 ext. 219 or hhuber@centerforinquiry.net .
