April is the Poetriest Month

Our Cosmic Mother & Father of the Verse

We have a flood of poetry readings to report this April:

First, please join us for a reading by Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize winning poets, Angela Sorby and Mark Kraushaar tomorrow: April 2 at 7:00pm in 6191 White. Their books-- and Bird Skin Coat and Falling Brick Kills Local Man--are the only poetry titles the UW Press will publish this year. Catch them while they're hot. Dessert reception to follow the reading.

April 9 (Thurs) get down to the Project Lodge (817 E. Johnson St.) to experience The Reversible Dog. There'll be a lot of fiction writers reading their own original poems, a couple poets reading short fiction & memoir. Some food & spirits will be provided. Good times in a great space. $3 cover.

April 16 (Thurs), Jesse Lee Kercheval and Alison Townsend promise to rock the house, reading from their new collections. 7:00pm at 6191 Helen C. White. Jesse Lee will be reading from her latest collection Cinema Muto, and Alison will be reading from Persephone in America. Both are Crab Orchard Open Award Series winners and have just been published in the Crab Orchard Poetry Series by Southern Illinois University Press.

April 23 (Thurs), Jennifer Militello and Ryan Walsh read at 7:00pm at Avol's Bookstore. Jennifer's collection, Flinch of Song, won the 2009 Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award and will be out in the fall. Ryan is happy to have a poem in the new issue of FIELD (#80 Spring). A limited run of documentary chapbooks and letter-pressed broadsides will be available from Pocket Press.