The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of each month at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

Guest poet for 28 March 2010 is Kim Garcia

Kim Garcia’s poetry collection Madonna Magdalene was published by Turning Point Books in the fall of 2006. Her work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Subtropics and Birmingham Poetry Review, among others, and has been aired on Writer’s Almanac.
Kim Garcia is the recipient of an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship, an Oregon Individual Artist Grant, and the 2009 X.J. Kennedy Award. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, she teaches creative writing at Boston College.

Sunday 28 March 2010 - Kim Garcia
Date: Sunday 28 March 2010.
Guest poet: Kim Garcia
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street,
Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street,
via Esther Street and Esther Lane)

Time:2.00 -3.30 pm (4th Sunday of every month)
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Sunday 28 February was the first reading for 2010 with guest readers Harbour City Poets reading from their collection "Conversations from the Bottom of the Harbour"
The collection is available from Picaro Press.

The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderfu wine and sponsorship.

Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc.
Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578

Who's on next at Brett Whiteley?
Sunday 25 April 2010 - Edwin Wilson
Edwin Wilson is a poet who has also published novels, autobiographies and works on botany. Since 1980 he has worked in community Relations at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. He is listed in the OUP publication Australian Poets & Their Works (1996), the
second edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (1994), and both editions of W.D. Thorpe’s Who’s Who of Australian Writers. His Collected Poems were brought out under the imprint of Kardoorair Press (Armidale) in 2002. My Brother Jim is his latest book.