When Ron Koertge writes about Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s wives in the same poetry collection, he’s creating the unexpected literary terrain that has defined his decades-long career.
The longtime Pasadena City College professor will read from “Pandora’s Kitchen: Poems” at Vroman’s Bookstore on Monday, October 6, at 7 p.m. in conversation with Lindsay Hill.
The free event celebrates Koertge’s newest collection, published September 16 by Red Hen Press, featuring his signature mythic and pop-culture mashups that locate “Jane Austen at the mall” and comfort “the sun itself.”