Alessandro Porco at Strong Words Reading Series

Alessandro Porco, author of Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems (ECW Press, April 2008), will be reading as part of the Strong Words Reading Series at the Gladstone Hotel Art Bar on Monday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. Pay what you can.

Alessandro Porco is a poet, critic, and scholar. Currently, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he is working toward a dissertation on the subject of hip-hop poetics. The author of The Jill Kelly Poems and the forthcoming Augustine in Carthage, he is originally from Brampton, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in such literary magazines as Matrix, Grain, and Queen Street Quarterly.