2010:
March 25, 2010 - BAROLO Reading - Grand Valley State University - Allendale, MI - 6pm
May 4, 2010 - Schuler Books and Music - 28th St. - Grand Rapids, MI - 7pm
May 11, 2010 - Hopleaf Bar - Chicago, IL. - 7pm
May 20, 2010 - Literary Life Bookstore - Grand Rapids, MI. - 7pm
June 28, 2010 - Slow Food Potawatomi Reading and Wine Tasting - Grand Rapids, MI. 6:30pm
July 22, 2010 - The Book Cellar - Chicago, IL. - 7pm
July 27, 2010 - WREG TV Live@9 Interview - Memphis, TN. - 9am
July 27, 2010 - Davis-Kidd Booksellers - Memphis, TN. - 6pm
July 28, 2010 - Davis-Kidd Booksellers - Nashville, TN. - 7pm
July 29-31 - Clarksville Writers’ Conference - Clarksville, TN. - check web-link for schedule
August 2, 2010 - Old City Java - Knoxville, TN. - 7pm
August 5, 2010 - Barnes and Noble, Westwood Plaza, Charleston, SC. - 5pm
August 6, 2010 - Art Institute of Charleston, Charleston, SC. - 12 Noon
August 6, 2010 - Trattoria Lucca, Charleston, SC. - Dinner, TBA
August 7, 2010 - Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC. - 1pm
August 10, 2010 - Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY. - 6pm
August 11, 2010 - Barnes and Noble, 86th St. and Lexington Ave, New York, NY. - 7pm
August 15, 2010 - Chatham’s Liquor Locker, Chatham, MA. - 1pm
August 17, 2010 - Jonathan Bourne Library, Bourne, MA. - 7pm
August 18, 2010 - Bacon Free Library, South Natick, MA. - 7:30pm
August 19, 2010 - Langley Adams Library, Groveland, MA. - 6:30pm
August 20, 2010 - Titcomb’s Bookshop, East Sandwich, MA. - 4pm
August 21, 2010 - Kingston Public Library, Kingston, MA. - 2pm
August 23, 2010 - South Hadley Public Library, South Hadley, MA. - 6:30pm
August 25, 2010 - L’Albatros Brasserie, Cleveland, OH. - Dinner, TBA
August 26, 2010 - Spagio Cellars, Columbus, OH. - 7pm
August 28, 2010 - Tutto Vino, Dublin, OH. - 5:30pm
August 29, 2010 - Basi Italia, Columbus, OH. - Dinner, TBA
Sept. 9, 2010 - Schuler Books and Music - Downtown, Fountain St. - Grand Rapids, MI. - 5:30pm
Sept. 10, 2010 - Barnes and Noble - 28th St. - Grand Rapids, MI. - 6pm
Sept. 24, 2010 - Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, IL. - 7pm
Oct. 27, 2010 - North Country Writers Festival, SUNY Jefferson, Watertown, NY. - check web-link for schedule
Oct. 28, 2010 - Writers and Books, Rochester, NY. - 7pm
Oct. 29, 2010 - YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center, Syracuse, NY. - 7pm
Nov. 10, 2010 - Celebration of the Book, Grand Rapids Public Library: Main Library, Grand Rapids, MI. - 7pm
2009:
April 4, 2009 - Jane Crown Poetry Radio Show (download reading) - 5pm
August 26, 2009 - Hopleaf Bar - Chicago, IL - 7pm
September 4, 2009 - Changing Hands Bookstore - Tempe, AZ - 7pm
October 14, 2009 - Carr Reading Series - Author’s Corner - University of Illinois Bookstore: Urbana-Champaign - 4:30pm
Matthew Gavin Frank talks about his forthcoming poetry collection, Sagittarius Agitprop, on North Country Public Radio:
Matthew Gavin Frank was born and raised in Chicago. Bitten by the food, wine, and travel bug, he left home at age seventeen, embracing the vagabond lifestyle that often lent itself to work in the restaurant industry. He ran a tiny breakfast joint in Juneau, Alaska, worked the Barolo wine harvest in Italy’s Piedmont, sautéed hog snapper hung-over in Key West, designed multiple degustation menus for Julia Roberts’s private parties in Taos, New Mexico, served as a sommelier for Chefs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand in Chicago, and assisted Chef Charlie Trotter with his Green Kitchen cooking demonstration at the Slow Food Nation 2008 event in San Francisco. He returned to academia and received his MFA in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction from Arizona State University. He taught creative writing to undergraduates in Phoenix, Arizona, and poetry to soldiers and their families near Fort Drum in upstate New York on the Canadian border.
Matthew -
Do you have an emailable copy of the radio interview…I would love to hear it? If not, could you post it on the website?
Miguel Frunk
Matthew - Congrats on the upcoming tour. If you make it back to CO, I will be there! I wonder, though, how you plan to talk about Italian food in the “Bacon Free” Library … doesn’t this go against everything the Italian kitchen holds near and dear?
warm regards,
Alan
Alan,
Strange, huh? Hopefully they won’t take their name too literally. I plan on dressing in my pig costume.
MGF
Matthew Gavin!
Tell your publisher that we moved from Champaign-Urbana after 23 years, and NOW he sends you there?
Also, tell your publisher that we, here in southern Florida, read too!
This is some crazy tour.
You are going to be very tired.
Sell a ton of books!
Irene,
Thanks so much! Yeah. A crazy tour, but I’m hoping crazy-fun. I hope to get down to South Florida for a few readings sometime this winter or spring. The Key West Literary Festival is having a food themed event, and I’m hoping to make it down for that.
You are going to have a blast–and so are your audiences! I’ll watch out for when you’re coming to LA and spread the word to my NYC friends to go see you. Congratulations!
Susan
Thanks so much, Susan! Hope all is going well with you.
You are reading at liquor stores and Italian restaurants?!?!?!?! Why have I never thought of that?????? We so wish we could make it to one of these, Matt– we miss you, and are very excited about this book of yours.
Miss you too, SV! Hope to see you soon.
Love,
M
Matt,
Hi! I just read your book in July. Any chance you will be coming back to NYC? I’d love to invite you to my wine store to do a Barolo tasting and reading.
Let me know!
Rachel
Hi Rachel,
Thanks so much for your kind words. I generally pass through NYC a couple times of year (I have friends and family there) and will keep you updated about the next trip. I will be reading Upstate (Syracuse, Rochester) this October.
Best,
Matt