Burning Coal Features Bradsher and Rojas, 11/13

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC continues its 2010/2011 "Lobby Lectures" season with poet David Nelson Bradsher and professor and author Carlos Rojas speaking on the nature of vampires in popular culture.  The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School (NOTE VENUE NAME CHANGE), 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.  All tickets are available at the door and are $5, or free for anyone holding a ticket for any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company's production of St. Nicholas.  Further details can be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or visiting our website at www.burningcoal.org.
 
ABOUT David Nelson BRADSHER. David Nelson Bradsher, former tennis pro and current fitness enthusiast, is an accidental tourist into the world of vampire poetry.  A stubborn adherent to the art of rhyme and meter, David's latest work is "The Vampire Sonnets," the story of Tristan Grey's seduction by the diabolical succubus, Nina.  Six years in the writing, the verse drama unfolds in sequential Shakespearean sonnets.  His poetic rhythms have appeared in "Light Quarterly," "Barefoot Muse," "Think Journal," "Seasons," "Tinfoil Dresses," and "Pirene's Fountain." David is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, with a B.A. in English, and most Saturdays in the autumn will find him in Kenan Stadium, cheering on the Tar Heels.  His love for football has also spawned his next project, MVP, set atop Mount Olympus on Super Bowl Sunday, as the gods observe (and interfere) with the annual spectacle known as The Super Bowl.  
 
ABOUT Carlos Rojas Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "The Great Wall: A Cultural History" (Harvard University Press, 2010) and "The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008), the co-editor of "Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon" (Routledge: 2009) and "Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History" (Duke University Press, 2007), and is the co-translator of Yu Hua's novel, "Brothers" (Pantheon, 2009). At Duke, he teaches courses on disease, prostitution, cities, and vampires.
 
For further information, please contact Burning Coal's managing director, Simmie Kastner, at 919.834.4001 or visit our website at www.burningcoal.org.