The James and Mary Laurie Booksellers, 250 Third Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN, couldn’t have been a more hospitable place for poets to read.
On April 10, Lunar Chandelier (Kimberly Lyons) and Unarmed magazine (Michael Mann) presented:
C. S. Giscombe and Basil King at 5:00 p.m.
Lee Ann Brown, Pierre Joris, Vincent Katz, Burt Kimmelman, Martha King, Kimberly Lyons, Nicole Peyrafitte, George Quasha, Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Ruby, Elizabeth Savage, and Sam Truitt at 7:00 p.m.
![Basil and Cecil](https://blog.basilking.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_6968-300x225.jpg)
![A somewhat fuzzy partial view of the audience.](https://blog.basilking.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_6966-300x225.jpg)
Special Commemorative pamphlets of work by the poets, prepared by Kimberly Lyons and printed by Ann Elliot of SoHo Letterpress in Brooklyn were distributed at the reading: Folded Silhouette (everyone in the group) and A Pigeon in Delacroix’s Garden (B.King and C.S. Giscombe only).
Some of the Laurie Booksellers wares can be found on their website: If you aren’t near Minneapolis, try www.lauriebooks.com
![Martha King reading . Photo by Sarah Kaplan.](https://blog.basilking.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Martha-reading-300x277.jpg)