Zaedryn Meade

 For Immediate Release

Contact:
Jack Estes, Publisher
pleasboat@nyc.rr.com

(USA) March 31, 2008 - Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press is proud to announce the publication of Fervor: Poems from the East Village 2005-2007 by Zaedryn Meade. Fervor is a riveting collection that looks at love’s joys and tragedies and the ways that love can both enthrall and disturb.

“Meade’s poetry in Fervor is powerful, beautiful, resonant … The poem “How to Survive Your First Year in New York City” should be required reading for all transplants; it will save you some time and heartache, and let you know (in advance) you’re not alone, even though it feels like you are.” - Amazon.com review

Please join Pleasure Boat Studio for the Fervor Book Release Party on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 8pm at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) in New York City.  With readings by: Jeanette Anderson (Scholastic’s Alliance for Young Artists & Writers), Cheryl B. (Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution), Ariel Federow (Miss Jew-S-A!), and Emily Haines (FYI Writing Group). Visit www.bowerypoetryclub.com for directions.

ABOUT FERVOR:
Fervor: Poems from the East Village is a celebratory exploration of the rituals of love, loss, and desire in relationships. The collection sifts through the inner emotional landscape of the development of romance through chivalry and gender dynamics, following the destruction, mourning, and healing as relationships grow, change, and end. The urban textures of New York both amplify and distance human connection and relation as the city itself becomes a lover.

ABOUT ZAEDRYN MEADE: 
Zaedryn Meade (www.zaedryn.com) is a queer butch activist, classically trained poet, spoken word performer, and smut writer. She has self-published two chapbooks, Covet (2001) and Valence: Fool’s Gold in the Shape of Poems (2004), and one spoken word CD, For the Record (2004). The third in her chapbook trilogy, Fervor: Poems from the East Village, was published in 2008 by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. Her smut stories can be found in Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage (Alyson), Love at First Sting (Cleis), Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 and 2007 (Cleis), and the forthcoming Super Short, Super Sexy Stories. Her poetry has been included in various collections including The Seattle Review and NPR’s “This I Believe” project. Zaedryn holds degrees in both social change and creative writing from the University of Washington, and she studied and taught performance poetry at the Bent Writing Institute for queers. She received an Honorable Mention in the Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund from the Astraea Foundation in 2008. Born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in New York City.

To find out more about Zaedryn or Fervor, visit www.zaedryn.com. For more information about Pleasure Boat Studio, visit www.pleasureboatstudio.com. For interviews, please contact Zaedryn Meade at scriven@gmail.com.