Celebrate the release of Lee Herrick's first book, This Many Miles from Desire (WordTech Communications, June 2007). WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 2007. Guest poets, drinks, & light appetizers. 5:30-6:30 (reception & signing) --- 6:30- 8:00 pm (poetry reading and signing).

Lee Herrick's poems have been published in The Bloomsbury Review, Many Mountains Moving, and the Hawaii Pacific Review, among others, and in anthologies such as Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology of Korean Adoptees and the new edition of Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley. He lives in Fresno and teaches at Fresno City College.

“The universal sadness, almost Sufi-like, and the timeless compassion these poems articulate make it possible for a reader to believe that any ‘I’ must include the whole world, inside and out, bliss and pain, broken and whole. I love these poems.”

-- Li-Young Lee, author of The City in Which I Love You and Book of My Nights

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Location: Samo's Korean Restaurant, 345 E. Shaw Ave. (at Fresno St. in the Mission Village Shopping Center), Fresno
Starts: 2007 Sep 5 - 6:30pm
Ends: 2007 Sep 5 - 8:00pm
Website: http://leeherrick.com