August 11th, 2011 Reading

Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (3711 Clifton Ave.) on Thursday, August 11th at 7PM. We'll be joined by the following poets:




Qiana Towns earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University, and a MA from Central Michigan University where she served as poetry editor for the online literary journal Temenos. Her work has appeared in Tidal Basin, Milk Money, and is currently featured at poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Assistant Editor for Willow Books and Reverie: Midwest African American Literature.
A poem by Qiana is here at No Tell Motel.




Karen George's poetry chapbook, Into the Heartland, was released by Finishing Line Press in May 2011. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Single Hound, Ontologica, Still: The Journal, Thumbnail Magazine, Blood Lotus, Vestal Review, The Barcelona Review,and The Cortland Review. She has been awarded grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, was selected by Lee Smith as co-winner of The Janice Hhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifolt Giles Award, and won the 2011 Carnegie Center's Next Great Writers Contest. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and teaches writing at The University of Cincinnati's Communiversity. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifShe's completed a collection of short stories for which she's seeking representation, and is working on a collection of poetry. A poem by Karen is here in The Cortland Review.



Charles Gabel is the author of the chapbook Pastoral (Strange Machine Books). Charles was born in Cincinnati, and he has since lived in Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, and most recently Boise, ID, where he is currently working on a translation of Virgil's Eclogues. He studies and teaches at Boise State University. A poem by Charles here at 751 Magazine.

Scenes from July 14th Reading

Jeff Hipsher explains Walgreens to us.



Adam Day gives voice to a badger.



Pauletta Hansel channels a teenage girl.

Thanks to all new and old friends of Bon Mot/ley. We hope you join us for the next reading: August 11th!

July 14th, 2011 Reading

Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (3711 Clifton Ave.) on Thursday, July 14th at 7PM. We'll be hearing from the following poets:



Adam Day's chapbook, Badger, Apocrypha was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2011. He is the recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize, and has been nominated for a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, AGNI, APR, Guernica, and elsewhere, and included in Best New Poets 2008. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, is an editor for the literary journals, Memorious and Catch Up, and is Writer-in-Residence at Earlham College.



Pauletta Hansel’s poetry collections include Divining (WovenWord Press, 2002) What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011­includes the 2007 chapbook First Person) and The Lives We Live in Houses (Forthcoming, Wind Publications, Fall 2011). Her work has been featured recently in journals including ABZ Journal, Southern Women’s Review, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, and Appalachian Journal, and anthologized in Motif: Come What May and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology. She works as Co-Director of Grailville Retreat and Program Center in Loveland, OH, where she also facilitates poetry programs, and leads various writing classes and workshops around the region. She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in 2011.



Jeff Hipsher is the founding member of the artist collective The Gold County Paper Mill. His work has previously appeared in or is forthcoming from Fork Lift Ohio, iO Poetry, Caketrain, elimae, The Alice Blue Review and others. In 2010 he received an honorable mention in Sarabande's Flo Gault Poetry Prize. He is the head editor of Catch Up ( www.catch-up.us ), a journal of comics and literature.