Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to a reading by poet Bill Lambdin on Thursday 16.1 at 5pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)

Bill Lambdin will read poems from his most recent collection of poems:  ‘Left On The Trail Where I’ve Been: Selected Poems 1993- 2013.’

Copies of the book will be sold by Bill himself for 10ein cash at the reading.

Welcome!

Warm regards,

Ian         
www.arkadiabookshop.fi
– Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. If you have no loose change or coins we gladly accept payment via Visa Electron or Mastercard etc.!

Bill Lambdin
I’ve been writing poetry for quite a few years. My hometown is Cleveland, Ohio and I’ve lived in different places in the midwestern and southern US and have lived in Finland since 2007. I’ve been influenced by such poets as Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Charles Bukowski and the beat poets. My poems have appeared in various small press magazines, broadsides and chapbooks in the US, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland. A few have appeared in French translation. My 1997 chapbook slow movement won the 1997 Georgia (USA) Author of the Year Award. Here is the title poem from that book:

slow movement
today is like the slow movement
of a quartet by Schubert
it’s cold    
everything’s frozen still and the melody you hear
over the silence is only there
to break yr heart