Author Reading:BJ Atwood-Fukuda

Author Reading at Woods Hole Public Library: BJ Atwood-Fukuda

August 14, Wednesday, 7:30 PM

Author BJ
Atwood-Fukuda will read from her work at the Woods Hole Public Library on Wednesday,
August 14 at 7:30 in the evening. She describes her proposed reading as "rhymes, rants & riffs",
though quickly adds “I haven't made my final selections yet, but it will
probably be a potpourri like this. I'll also read two (very) short stories.
. .and if time allows, a brief excerpt or two from a work-in-progress that will
be a book (a novel, or novel-length riff) one day, if I ever finish it”.

BJ Atwood-Fukuda lives and works in Spuyten
Duyvil, NY (a section of the
Bronx, by the Hudson River) and Woods
Hole.  She has an MFA in fiction writing
from The New School (1998), a JD from Cardozo
Law School,
Yeshiva University
(1992) and a BA in Italian from Columbia University
(1975).  B J’s work has appeared in Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the
Present (Scribners, 2003); Free
Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books (Subpress, 2004); American Letters & Commentary; and The Mad Hatter’s Review, among others.
She has read her work aloud at several places in New York, including Barnes & Noble, the
KGB Bar and the Rubin Museum of Art, where she currently works as a docent
(volunteer guide). This will be her
first reading at the Woods Hole Public Library.

BJ grew up summers with her family in Woods Hole, where her
father did research at the MBL and she attended Science School.
She recalls, as a young child, spending hours at the WHPL on rainy afternoons,
and on evenings when it was open late. “We’d all go down there after
dinner—this was a special treat. I found it thrilling to be let loose in front
of all those shelves filled with books I didn’t yet know, whole worlds waiting
to be explored. I loved the way the pages smelled, the various fonts and how
they looked on the page; the titles and how they evoked, or obscured, what lay
inside. Illustrations? Sometimes they complemented the words, sometimes they
just got in the way of my imagination! The library was a place of enchantment—a
treasure-house—where, for a few hours, I could lose myself completely.”

Come to the Woods Hole Library, that place of enchantment
for the young BJ, and listen to her read from her current work. Free and open
to the public.

For more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961 or
visit the website at www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.