Enid Shomer

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Events

Readings and signings for Tourist Season:

Thursday, May 3, 7:00 pm - Tampa, FL - Inkwood Books

Sunday, May 13, 2:00 pm - Gainesville, FL - Goerings Book Center

Saturday, May 19, 1:00pm - Methuen, MA - Methuen Public Library

Friday, June 15, evening - Kansas City, MO - Mark Twain Conference at the University of Missouri, Kansas City

Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 pm - Tampa, FL - Lifelong Writers, University of South Florida

Thursday, October 4 - Winnetka, IL - The Book Stall

October 15-20 - Readings at 5 universities in Florida, details to be announced

November, date to be announced - Savannah, GA - Armstrong Atlantic University

November, date to be announced - Asheville, NC - University of North Carolina

Other events:

Monday, May 21, 4:00 pm - Valencia, CA - Dance Opera "Pope Joan" based on Shomer's poem cycle will be performed at CalArts' concert hall.
CD release date September 2007.

Monday, June 4, 6:30 pm - New York City - Repertorio Espaņol, 138 E 27 St (between 3rd and Lexington Aves.)
Performance of Crash Course, a play adapted from Shomer's short story "Crash Course," part of the Raymond J. Flores' Award Series.



Selected Works

Poetry
Black Drum
A stunning collection that adroitly mixes the sacred and the profane, the classical and casual.
--Booklist
Poetry; Biography
STARS AT NOON: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
Poems that give voice to the mercurial, dazzling woman who first broke the sound barrier.
Short Fiction
Tourist Season
"Wonderfully inventive and deeply true, these stories are full of small, irreverent, straight-faced miracles." -Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
Imaginary Men
Remarkable insights into tradition and family, love and sex...This is a splendid fictional debut.
--Robert Olen Butler



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