Come GET LIT! with editors from FORKLIFT OHIO, MEMORIOUS, POST ROAD, and SMARTISH PACE as we celebrate National Poetry Month with four fabulous readers:
CHAD SWEENEY
TYRONE WILLIAMS
MATT MCBRIDE
MEGAN GRUMBLING
Join us for happy hour before the reading, when the Northside Tavern serves up $3.25 drafts and $3 well drinks at 5 pm. The reading begins at 7 p.m.
And stick around for Eagle to Squirrel Variety Hour after the reading!
Feel free to spread the rumor that there will be Hicok ale, cupcakes, and some of that famous Forklift chili.
SPONSORING JOURNALS:
http://www.forkliftohio.com
http://www.smartishpace.com
http://www.postroadmag.com
http://www.memorious.org
READERS:
CHAD SWEENEY’s recent poetry collections are The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre (Forklift, 2010), Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010), and Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009). He is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and editor of the City Lights anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teaching Artists of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (2009). A PhD candidate at Western Michigan University, he teaches poetry and lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.
TYRONE WILLIAMS has published a volume of poetry, c.c., through Krupskaya Books. In 2004 Williams published two more collections of poetry, Futures, Elections (Dos Madres, 2004) and AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004) He has a chapbook, Convalescence, from Ridgeway Press (1987; 2nd ed. 1989; 3rd ed. 1994). In addition, he has published poetry in Hambone, Callaloo, The Denver Quarterly, River Styx, The Kenyon Review, Artful Dodge, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The World, Dispatch, Long News, and other national magazines. His manuscript, "The Adventures of Pi," was a finalist in the 1992 National Poetry Series. In 1993 his poems were the Grand Prize Winner of the Philosopher's Stone Poetry Competition. In 1996, his manuscript, "Figure: Chalk on Asphalt," was a finalist in the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. He was a participant in the 1999 Djerassi Resident Artist Program near Santa Cruz, CA. . Williams is currently circulating his manuscript on hip-hop culture, "Hip-Hop And The Public," working on a book on intellectual property and the arts, "Quotation And Modern Art," and completing another book of poetry for the avant-garde publisher Atelos Books.He teaches at Xavier University.
MATT MCBRIDE hails originally from the Gem City, Dayton, Ohio. This year, his work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Comstock Review, Fence, Meridian, Mississippi Review, RHINO, Packingtown Review, and Sub-Lit. His chapbook, The Space between Stars was released on Kent State’s Wick Poetry Press in 2007. Now a resident of the Queen City, he works on the staff of two journals, Memorious magazine and the Cincinnati Review.
MEGAN GRUMBLING lives in Portland, Maine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Seneca Review, New Letters, Passages North, and other journals. She was awarded a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and received the 2004 Robert Frost Foundation Award for Poetry. She is author and printer of the chapbook To and from Deepening, which has this year been reissued in a second edition by the Robert Frost Foundation. Beyond her red writing room, Megan teaches writing at the University of New England and Southern Maine Community College, serves as reviews editor for the poetry and arts journal The Café Review, coordinates literary events in a former Danish Lutheran church for the non-profit Mayo Street Arts, and is the theater critic of Portland’s alt-weekly, the Portland Phoenix.
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