Eric Kocher: Reading and Signing

Meet with us on October 29th at Hub City Bookshop at 6 PM with local writer and poet Eric Kocher. Kocher will be reading from and signing his new collection of poetry, Sky Mall.

We would love to know you are coming! Please consider RSVP-ing to this free event.

Like the magazine from which it takes its name, Eric Kocher’s Sky Mall is committed to “making a catalogue of things, / Strange and wonderful, terrifying and sad.” The poems are equally in awe of each object—a towering western redcedar, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the frothiness of clouds—but also worried about the estrangement and alienation that capitalism constructs between beings and the world. Out of this emerges a meditation on parenthood, on togetherness and love, that is both cosmic and absurd.

Eric Kocher teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College. Some of his poems have previously appeared in 32 Poems, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Oversound, and A Public Space, among others. He lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife, Audrey, and their two children, Oscar and Louise.

Host or Publisher Hub City Writers Project