Let Me Eat Butter: Thursday at 8

Hello Friends.  I am reading this Thursday evening, December 12 at 8, in Brooklyn, my original essay about moving to France for the butter, called LET ME EAT BUTTER! All details below. If you are free, come on over. If you are in the  mood to read something---come even earlier (7:45) to sign up. Brooklyn Reading Works Presents: FEAST: share a poem or story about food, eat some soup, and raise $ for a local food pantry, all in one fell swoop at The Old Stone House December 12, 2013 8PM Your $10 donation will help support a local food pantry and includes soup, snacks and wine. Here's your chance to share a favorite poem, or to read something you've written about food and feasting. Bring a story, memoir, or a poem with food or feasting as subject matter, as metaphor, as inspiration. There will be an 8-minute time limit per reader, strictly enforced!!! Shorter is better!!! All it takes is one small poem shared!!! Soup will be served, plus wine, and in the spirit of the holidays-- Please bring COOKIES to share! Ken Carlton, author of The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire and Ambition with the Chef of the Waverly Inn, will open the event with an excerpt from his novel Food for Marriage. Molly Gallentine whose work has been published in The Rumpus, CutBank, The New Delta Review, etc. will treat us to an excerpt of her meditation on Jello. Ame Gilbert, who runs PoetrySoup Salon, is organizing, cooking and hosting this event and will make it as smart, cozy and delicious as her monthly salons. DATE: December 12 at 8PM IF YOU PLAN TO READ: Please come at 7:45 so we can put you on the list. LOCATION: The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues, F train to Fourth Avenue, R train to Union Street.  View Larger Map