Outside Event Alert (this one will be AWESOME!!!!)

Nationally celebrated poet Mark Yakich will be at Burke’s Book Store on Friday, October 9th, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM to read from and sign copies of his poetry collections. The reading will begin at 6 pm.


“Urgent, absurd, heart-broken and lewd—the emotional range of this book [The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine] is beyond our measuring systems.”
---Matthea Harvey

Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). He is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Mark divides his time between the bedroom and the kitchen.