Antje Katcher: For Bananafish and Paul Genega - A Stone for Nina

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Our friend poet and activist Antje Katcher died on April 7, 2014.

In March of  2013 Antje read at Canios Books in Sag Harbor from her  chapbook Banana Fish, inspired by the titles of J.D.Salinger's Nine Short Stories along with her long time friend Paul Genega who read from his prose piece A Stone for Nina.




Complete reading: Listen here 

Excerpts: Here is Antje Katcher reading 

 "A perfect day for banana fish".
 
and  

  "Just before war with the eskimos"

The complete reading will be broadcast on listener powered WPKN 89.5 FM and also heard at http://stream.wpkn.org on May 28 at 7:30 pm and available here for download.

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