Pete's Big Salmon Reading Series

WHO IS PETE AND WHY DOES HE HAVE A BIG SALMON?


	Pete as in Pete of Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, u.s.a., the home of Pete's Big Salmon, a bi-weekly reading series. What do the readers read? Mostly poetry, the good kind, and lots of it. But they also read fiction sometimes. Pete's Big Salmon grew out of Waxpoetic by the great Joelle Hann. We tip our hat to her. Click here to find out why we named this series Pete's Big Salmon. Click here to see other names that didn't make it.

	The curators for the series are Jennifer L. Knox and Ada Limón. Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, California-- crystal meth capitol of the nation, and home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Space Shuttle. Her first book, A Gringo Like Me, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in Spring 2005. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry (2003 and 1997) and Great American Prose Poems: from Poe to Present. Click here to see a few of her FAVORITE THINGS. Click here to see a list of her CURRENT FEARS. Click here to test how much you know about Jen. Ada Limon is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from New York University. A two-time Pushcart Nominee and a 2001-2002 fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, she recently received a grant for Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work appears in numerous magazines. Click here to see a few of her FAVORITE THINGS. Click here to see a list of her CURRENT FEARS. The website was developed with the help of Daniel (the man with the planiel and/or spaniel) Nester, editor of Unpleasant Event Schedule and author of God Save My Queen. They are really quite beautiful websites. He made the fish open their mouths.