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Terry Tierney

Terry Tierney and Peter Neil Carroll

6 AUGUST 2023 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents fiction writer and poet Terry Tierney, reading to launch The Bridge on Beer River, his brand new novel, and poet and historian Peter Neil Carroll, Talking to Strangers: Poetry of Everyday Life and This Land, These People: The 50 States, poems, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

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Poet and fiction writer Terry Tierney's brand-new novel is The Bridge on Beer River. Andy Smart says, "Reading Terry Tierney's novel-in-stories, The Bridge on Beer River, is to remember what I love about fiction. Tierney does, in fact, tell tales, but he tells them with a writerly voice that can only result in that most precious outcome: honest deception." His previous books are The Poet's Garage, a poetry collection, and Lucky Ride, a 1960s road trip novel. His stories have appeared in Fiction Pool, Blue Lake Review, Eunoia Review, Fictive Dreams, Literally Stories, Big Bridge, and others. His poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Front Porch Review, Kalliope, Kansas Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Puerto del Sol, California Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Cottonwood Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland.

Poet and historian Peter Neil Carroll's new books are This Land, These People: The 50 States, poems, and Talking to Strangers: Poetry of Everyday Life. Lee Rossi wrote of Talking to Strangers, "Like earlier chroniclers of the American folk—Edgar Lee Masters and Edward Arlington Robinson come to mind—Carroll is drawn to the eccentric and the oddball. In sinuous free verse, he limns a series of arresting anecdotes, few longer than a page, as he searches for Homo Americanus." His previous poetry collections include An Elegy for Lovers, The Truth Lies on Earth, Fracking Dakota, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem, and A Child Turns Back to Wave, Prize Americana winner 2012. Other books include Keeping Time: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Art of History; The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War; and It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s. He lives in northern California.

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