Poetry. Kate Schapira asked about a hundred people to describe an imaginary town. Sixty-three of them did. She built their contributions into poems that explore how we live differently in the same world, who we mean when we say we, what we mean when we say "here."

Author Hometown: PROVIDENCE, RI USA



About the author: Kate Schapira is the author of HOW WE SAVED THE CITY (Stockport Flats, 2012), THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES (Noemi Press, 2011), TOWN (Factory School, 2010) and several chapbooks from Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope- A-Dope Press and horse less press. Another full-length collection, The Soft Place, is forthcoming in 2012 from Horse Less Press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she co- curates the Publicly Complex Reading Series and writes, teaches, and works as a Writer in the Schools.

Reviews:
Kelly Frankenberg @ Gently Read Literature
interview @ Cousins Reading Series
interview by Kate Colby @ Word For/Word