Award-winning Brooklyn Poet Book Launch at LTCC Nov. 2

On Nov. 2 at 7 pm Bona Fide Books will launch Brooklyn poet Lexa Hillyer’s award-winning collection “Acquainted with the Cold” at a reading at the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. The event is free and open to the public.

“Acquainted with the Cold” is Hillyer’s first collection, and it won Bona Fide’s 2011 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, offered annually in honor of the local artist who died in 2009. The book is concerned with the intersection of nature and city, and takes the reader on an invigorating ode to the seasons.

“I kept returning to the sounds of the seasons in these poems,” says Kim Wyatt, publisher of Bona Fide Books, which awards the prizewinner publication, $500 and a reading at Lake Tahoe. “Acquainted with the Cold” is available online through Bona Fide Books and Amazon, and after November 2 in select stores in the Tahoe region; go to www.bonafidebooks.com for more details.

Hillyer received her MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She was the recipient of the Inaugural Poetry Prize from Tusculum Review and the First Prize in Poetry from Brick & Mortar Review, and was named one of the “Best New Poets of 2012” by Matthew Dickman. Hillyer worked as an editor at both Harper Collins and Penguin, and is co-founder of boutique literary incubator Paper Lantern Lit.

Laura Kasischke, National Book Critics Circle winner for “Space, in Chains” calls Hillyer “an important new voice in poetry.” Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the brightest emerging poets in America read from her mesmerizing collection. Books will be available for signing and purchase. Sacramento Poet Laureate Jeff Knorr will also read at this event.

Lake Tahoe Community College is located at 1 College Drive in South Lake Tahoe. For more information on this or other Bona Fide events, contact Kim Wyatt at editor@bonafidebooks.com or visit the website at www.bonafidebooks.com.

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