What: An Evening With Chris Mattingly
Where: The Gallery at the Alternative Cafe. 1230 Fremont Blvd, Seaside, CA
When: Friday, January 7th, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Why: Totally fit for the holidays, some warming poetry.
Ticket Price: Free
Who: 

Mattingly will be doing aq reading out of his book, Ad Hoc, and will also have a signing.
Chris Mattingly:

poet Chris Mattingly lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and often writes about The 
the land and culture of his home, whether in the form of a celebration or fierce
complaint. Chris Mattingly is the author of the chapbook Ad Hoc from Q Avenue
Press. His poems have most recently appeared in Louisville Review, Margie,
Trajectory, Southern Indiana Review, and Public Republic. He also reviews books for
the Louisville Courier-Journal and plays banjo in the Fatted Calf Stringband.

Chris Mattingly was inspired by the working-class lives of his grandparents, great
uncles, father and mother and grew up listening to the stories indigenous to the
Pennyrile region of Kentucky. Inventive yet rooted in place, his work reflects a
heritage that is sometimes beautiful and often bewildering. Poet Maurice Manning
wrote of Ad Hoc: “Chris Mattingly’s poems come from the other side of the tracks,
from a country world known less for its tranquil beauty than its despair, its
inevitable violence. Never, however, does Mattingly impose a wish that the world
he knows so well were otherwise: he prefers the honest grit, a pursuit which
charges his poems with sincerity and forgiveness.”

Mattingly holds a degree in English from Indiana University and an M.F.A in Poetry
from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The event will start at 7pm and will run until 8:30pm.
This event is Free and open to the public.
Beer & Wine, as well as coffee and snacks will be available.

Further questions:
The Alternative Cafe
(831) 583-0913
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www.thealternativecafe.com