In 1916, the poet Edgar Lee Masters published Spoon River Anthology, a book-length poem which demythologized life in small-town America. The poem was conceived as a series of short epitaphs, in which the town’s dearly departed reached out to the living, from the afterlife of a website.
Spoon River Apology offers a similar portrait of another, more contemporary community, the fictitious town of Woodspoon, New York. Written by Mikhail Horowitz, the staged reading will be performed by Horowitz and Sarah Chodoff, Steve Clorfeine, Celeste Graves, Gilles Malkine, Pamela Pentony, David Smilow, and Judy Tierney.
