The winner of the inaugural West End Poetry Prize, Dirt City member Nick DePascal's Before You Become Improbable has garnered plenty of well-deserved praise from local media and lit journals since it hit shelves last summer. Blue Mesa Review calls Nick's book a "vivid, surreal collection" that weaves together scenes of "disaffected bank transactions, corporate life, road trips, sex, whales, seasons, and animals both wild and domestic." The Weekly Alibi ranked it among its top three picks for locally themed holiday gifts for readerly loved ones, noting Nick's "precise, forthright language" and "sharp humor laced with trenchant sadness."
If you want to hear Nick be sad and funny in person, he has two readings coming up:
Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, March 1 at 4 p.m.
University of New Mexico (exaction time and location TBD) with Natalie Scenters-Zapico, April 24
And keep an eye out for an upcoming blog post from Nick. He may even reveal what's under that beard of his.
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