Local Poet Michael Pacey Launches Electric Affinities

Michael Pacey launches his new book Electric Affinities Thursday, April 23, at Westminster Books. The reading is at 7pm, and it is free and open to the public.

Two of Michael's poems appeared in last summer's poetry issue, "Lightbulb" and "Painters." Here's a few lines from "Lightbulb": Icon of pure idea. Screwed into a sphere of permanence / skin-thin, fragile as eggshell, yet suffused / in an even light...

Electric Affinities is Michael's second collection. It is published by Signature Editions. He lives in Fredericton, NB.