Sarah Van Arsdale presents CATCH AND RELEASE with Carol Potter

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Join us to celebrate the release of CATCH AND RELEASE from author Sarah Van Arsdale! Carol Potter will join Sarah for this special night of reading, signing, and Q&A.

ABOUT CATCH AND RELEASE

Catch and Release takes the reader into vivid oceanic realms off the coast of Mexico through Sarah Van Arsdale‘s watercolor illustrations of stoplight parrotfish and nurse sharks, sergeant majors and barracuda. The poetic and richly detailed story of an imprisoned shark’s liberation confronts humanity’s role in the destruction of the magnificent underwater world, while offering hope for the planet’s future.

ABOUT SARAH VAN ARSDALE

Sarah Van Arsdale is a fiction writer, poet, and artist living in New York and Oaxaca, Mexico. Her seventh book, Catch and Release, (Finishing Line Press, 2024) is a book-length poem about the human impact on the sea life in Mexico, levied by Van Arsdale’s watercolor illustrations. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, was published by Riverhead Books in 1995. She is the author of three other books of fiction: Blue, winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the novel (2003 University of Tennessee Press); Grand Isle (SUNY Press, 2012) a novella collection, In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (Queens Ferry Press, 2016), and another book-length poem, The Catamount (Nomadic Press, 2016). She’s assistant director of the Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction, and she teaches creative writing in the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University. Her current project is a weekly collection of watercolor interpretations of photos from The New York Times, at https://inourtimes.substack.com/publish/posts

ABOUT CAROL POTTER

Carol Potter’s fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2007), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT poetry. Her book of poems Short History of Pets won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award, and the Balcones Award. Previous books are Upside Down in the Dark, 1995, and Before We Were Born, 1990—both from Alice James Books. Potter’s poems have appeared in Field, The Iowa Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books and many other journals and anthologies.

After five years in California, including part-time on a boat in Marina del Rey, Potter returned to New England and is living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Most recent publications include poems in Field, Switched-on Gutenberg, and forthcoming in the Open Field Anthology.

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