Not sure Orlando’s ready, but we’re excited to bring Matt Lany, who teaches at FSCJ, to read with the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour on May 27th from 7:30 – 9 p.m. at the Timucua Arts Foundation White House. We hope Matt will read from “A.Violet: Abominatio,” a book of poetry detailing the final words of A. Violet. Because, hey, if  your Scribbler has nightmares, you should have nightmares.

Here’s what Lany said in his JaxbyJax bio about the book: “By accident, Matt came across Violet, a homeless drifter living in Jennings, Louisiana – in a crude lean-to – on land belonging to Matt’s father-in-law. On the day prior to Hurrican Rita’s landfall, an elderly Violet spoke elquently of his life and its looming end. Some of his claims have loosely panned out, but most remain unverifiable. Did he commit a multiple murder outside Omaha? Had his mother been an actual priate? What of Violet’s time in a Dallas subdivision, and did he really help build the Bates’ home, as seen in Hitchcock’s Psycho? After Rita passed, Violet was gone, the swamp on which he lived having been swamped by flood and vicious wind.”

The SESCRT concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!

Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.

Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.