Fuller Village invites the community to a book launching for Maker of Shadows by Josh Coben, Winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize 2009, on Sunday afternon, October 24th, 2010, at 3:00pm in the Function Room at the 1372 Brush Hill Rd. Light refreshments will be served.

Makers of Shadows finds regions on the map – Mumbai, Cape Cod, the Midwest, and the Middle East – and in the mind where violence alternates with laughter, and despair gives way to desire. Tropical islands soon to be submerged plead for tourists, and Sun Belt cities beckon those who would deny death. Yet these poems find humor and solace in daily life, from irreverent looks at banks, dogs, and gods, to glimpses into the inner lives of a rat exterminator and a father bathing his child.

The author, Josh Coben, a teacher at the Cunningham School, was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He spent two years in France before moving to Boston, where he lives with his wife and three children and teaches at the Cunningham School. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, College English, The Evansville Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore and other journals, as well as in Arguing through Literature (McGraw-Hill 2005).

For further information call Fuller Village at 617-361-7778.