Peter Davis
Michael Schiavo
Friday, May 13, 2011
Scenes from May 2011 Reading
Though it was hot, we are poets, thus we soldiered on.
Peter Davis
Michael Schiavo
Peter Davis
Michael Schiavo
Thursday, April 21, 2011
May 12th, 2011 Reading Details
Please join us on May 12th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. See our excellent reaaders' bios below:
Peter Davis' books of poetry are Hitler's Mustache and Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art and co edited Poet's Bookshelf II with Tom Koontz. His poems have appeared in journals like Court Green, Jacket, Spooky Boyfriend, No Tell Motel, Forklift, Ohio, and Action, Yes. Four poems from Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! appear in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. His music project, Short Hand, is available through his website, artisnecessary.com. He lives in Muncie, Indiana with his sweet wife and sweet kids and teaches at Ball State University.
Michael Schiavo is the author of The Mad Song (Shires Press, 2008; out of print) as well as forthcoming chapbooks from horseless press and Forklift, Ink. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in such places as THE YALE REVIEW, TIN HOUSE, McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY, THE BELIEVER, LIT, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, NO TELL MOTEL, FORKLIFT, OHIO, SIXTH FINCH, JUBILAT, THE AWL, and the online anthology POETS FOR LIVING WATERS. He edits the The Equalizer, an occasional PDF poetry anthology. The first series was released in October 2010. He is also at work on a new print 'zine called GONDOLA, which he hopes to begin publishing this year. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut in Humanistics, and his MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars in 2002. He has worked as a dishwasher, barista, adjunct professor, freelance newspaperman, bookseller, underwriter's assistant, overnight stock boy, and is currently unemployed, like you. He lives in Vermont.
Dave Harrity's chapbook--Morning and What Has Come Since (Finishing Line Press, 2007)--was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Kentucky Literary Award. His work has appeared in many journals and magazines including Copper-Nickel, Ruminate Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and The Portland Review. He has worked as a teacher much of his career in a variety of settings--as a high school teacher, freelance tutor and writing coach, and college professor. Most recently he has worked at Asbury Seminary, where he conducted a three-part lecture and workshop series on Religious Imagination, Bellarmine University teaching English and Theology, and as the Poetry Manuscript Consultant at The Carnegie Center of Lexington, KY. Currently, he writes and teaches in Louisville while juggling a charmed life at home with his wife and children.
Peter Davis' books of poetry are Hitler's Mustache and Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art and co edited Poet's Bookshelf II with Tom Koontz. His poems have appeared in journals like Court Green, Jacket, Spooky Boyfriend, No Tell Motel, Forklift, Ohio, and Action, Yes. Four poems from Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! appear in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. His music project, Short Hand, is available through his website, artisnecessary.com. He lives in Muncie, Indiana with his sweet wife and sweet kids and teaches at Ball State University.
Michael Schiavo is the author of The Mad Song (Shires Press, 2008; out of print) as well as forthcoming chapbooks from horseless press and Forklift, Ink. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in such places as THE YALE REVIEW, TIN HOUSE, McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY, THE BELIEVER, LIT, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, NO TELL MOTEL, FORKLIFT, OHIO, SIXTH FINCH, JUBILAT, THE AWL, and the online anthology POETS FOR LIVING WATERS. He edits the The Equalizer, an occasional PDF poetry anthology. The first series was released in October 2010. He is also at work on a new print 'zine called GONDOLA, which he hopes to begin publishing this year. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut in Humanistics, and his MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars in 2002. He has worked as a dishwasher, barista, adjunct professor, freelance newspaperman, bookseller, underwriter's assistant, overnight stock boy, and is currently unemployed, like you. He lives in Vermont.
Dave Harrity's chapbook--Morning and What Has Come Since (Finishing Line Press, 2007)--was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Kentucky Literary Award. His work has appeared in many journals and magazines including Copper-Nickel, Ruminate Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and The Portland Review. He has worked as a teacher much of his career in a variety of settings--as a high school teacher, freelance tutor and writing coach, and college professor. Most recently he has worked at Asbury Seminary, where he conducted a three-part lecture and workshop series on Religious Imagination, Bellarmine University teaching English and Theology, and as the Poetry Manuscript Consultant at The Carnegie Center of Lexington, KY. Currently, he writes and teaches in Louisville while juggling a charmed life at home with his wife and children.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Scenes from April 2011 Reading
If you missed this reading, I'm really sorry. These pictures will hardly suffice.
Matt Hart.
Cathy Wagner.
Join us for the next Bon Mot/ley May 12!
Matt Hart.
Cathy Wagner.
Join us for the next Bon Mot/ley May 12!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
April 14th Reading
Please join us on April 14th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. We're excited to have two poets we love to hear reading for us, hear them too:
Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS 2010). A third full length collection, Light-Headed, will be published by BlazeVOX in the spring of 2011, and a fourth collection Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless will be published by Typecast in 2012. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Catherine Wagner's latest book is My New Job (Fence 2009). Earlier publications include Miss America and Macular Hole (both from Fence) and a dozen chapbooks, recently Bornt (Dusie) and Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha). New poems in Abraham Lincoln, Poor Claudia, 1913, New American Writing and Lana Turner. She lives in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at Miami University. More at Archive of the Now and Penn Sound.
Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS 2010). A third full length collection, Light-Headed, will be published by BlazeVOX in the spring of 2011, and a fourth collection Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless will be published by Typecast in 2012. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Catherine Wagner's latest book is My New Job (Fence 2009). Earlier publications include Miss America and Macular Hole (both from Fence) and a dozen chapbooks, recently Bornt (Dusie) and Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha). New poems in Abraham Lincoln, Poor Claudia, 1913, New American Writing and Lana Turner. She lives in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at Miami University. More at Archive of the Now and Penn Sound.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Scenes from March 2011
Oddly enough, it snowed just so L.S. Klatt's poems would have the perfect setting for their exploration of what happens when you find an octopus in the snow.
Chad Sweeney fed us modern day parables and channeled his ancestor Juan Sweeney for a little bilingual reading.
Next Month 4/14: Cathy Wagner and Matt Hart. Do. Not. Miss. It!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
March 10th Reading
Please join us for an exceptional reading experience on March 10th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. We've got two poets heading over from Michigan just for your pleasure:
L. S.Klatt, was born and raised in Cincinnati. After earning degrees from Wittenberg University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and St. John's College, he graduated from the University of Georgia in 2003 with a PhD in English. His poems have appeared in many magazines,including The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, field, Drunken Boat, jubilat, Verse, Chicago Review, Columbia Poetry Review, SycamoreReview, Denver Quarterly, West Branch, The Cincinnati Review, BellinghamReview, Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Parthenon West, and Slope. His first book, Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by theUniversity of Massachusetts Press in 2009. His second collection, Cloud of Ink, won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize and comes out this month from theUniversity of Iowa Press. He is also the author of an essay on Walt Whitman entitled "The Electric Whitman," which appeared in The Southern Review. He teaches American literature and creative writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Chad Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010) and Wolf Milk: Lost Poems of Juan Sweeney, a bilingual edition forthcoming from Forklift Books. His translation (with Mojdeh Marashi) of the Selected Poems of Iranian Poet H.E. Sayeh will appear later this year from White Pine Press. Chad's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He edits Parthenon West Review with David Holler and is a visiting assistant professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
L. S.Klatt, was born and raised in Cincinnati. After earning degrees from Wittenberg University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and St. John's College, he graduated from the University of Georgia in 2003 with a PhD in English. His poems have appeared in many magazines,including The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, field, Drunken Boat, jubilat, Verse, Chicago Review, Columbia Poetry Review, SycamoreReview, Denver Quarterly, West Branch, The Cincinnati Review, BellinghamReview, Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Parthenon West, and Slope. His first book, Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by theUniversity of Massachusetts Press in 2009. His second collection, Cloud of Ink, won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize and comes out this month from theUniversity of Iowa Press. He is also the author of an essay on Walt Whitman entitled "The Electric Whitman," which appeared in The Southern Review. He teaches American literature and creative writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Chad Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010) and Wolf Milk: Lost Poems of Juan Sweeney, a bilingual edition forthcoming from Forklift Books. His translation (with Mojdeh Marashi) of the Selected Poems of Iranian Poet H.E. Sayeh will appear later this year from White Pine Press. Chad's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He edits Parthenon West Review with David Holler and is a visiting assistant professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Scenes from our January 13, 2011 Reading
Traci Brimhall
Adam Clay
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