Upcoming Readings

All readings start at 7 p.m. at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (www.cliftonculturalarts.org).

Nov. 20: Allison Titus, Andrew Grace, and Matt McBride
[Please note, this reading is on the third Friday of the month, unlike our regular readings, which are on the second Thursday of the month.]

Allison Titus's first book, Sum of Every Lost Ship, is forthcoming from CSU Press. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the first annual Boom Chapbook contest from Bateau Press. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their three dogs.

Andrew Grace’s 3rd book of poems, Sancta, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2012. He was a 2006-8 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review,and the Crab Orchard Review among others. His second book Shadeland recently won the 2008 Ohio State University Press / The JournalAward for Poetry. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Tory and his daughter Lily.

Matt McBride received his MFA from Bowing Green State University where he was the recipient of a Devine fellowship. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, was released by Kent State’s Wick Poetry press in 2007. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alice Blue, Cranky, Dark Sky Magazine, Marginalia, Packingtown Review, Past Simple, Phoebe, Poet Lore, and The Toledo City Paper. Currently he is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and works as a poetry reader for Memorious Magazine.

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January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and a third reader TBA

February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Lily Brown

March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr

April: No Reading

May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and a third reader TBA

June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King