Traci Brimhall, Franklin K.R. Cline, and Huascar Medina

Traci Brimhall, Franklin K.R. Cline, and Huascar Medina

5pm Sunday January 21st

Poetry Reading and Book Release Party for Saudade (Traci Brimhall), So What (Franklin K.R. Cline), and How to Hang the Moon (Huascar Medina)

Traci Brimhall is the author of Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.

Franklin K.R. Cline is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a PhD candidate in English—Creative Writing at the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, a member of Woodland Pattern Book Center's Board of Directors, and the book reviews and interviews editor of cream city review. He lives in Milwaukee.

Huascar Medina lives artfully in Topeka, Ks as a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His first collection of poems is titled, How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press 2017). Recent work published can be found in Finding Zen in Cowtown (Spartan Press 2017), Kansas Time & Place : An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkan Press 2017). He’s currently a section editor for seveneightfive magazine and the 2018 selectee for the Homegrown Playwright Project from The Ad Astra Theatre Ensemble.

Toby Altman, Emily Barton Altman, and Jim McCrary

Toby Altman, Emily Barton Altman, and Jim McCrary

5pm Sunday November 12th

Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and five chapbooks, including recently, Security Theater (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016). His poems can be found in Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies.

Emily Barton Altman is a poet and editor. Recent publications include a chapbook, "Bathymetry" (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016), and poems forthcoming or appearing in The Journal Petra, Dream Pop Press, Ghost Proposal, and others. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and received her MFA from New York University. She co-hosts and produces the poetry podcast Make (No) Bones with her partner, Toby Altman.

Jim McCrary lives in Lawrence, Kansas. He's the author of two books of poetry, All That (ManyPenny Press, 2008) and This Here (theenk Books, 2015). He has been contributing editor to several journals over the years including Grist, Loose Gravel, Avec and First Intensity. He edited and published a zine called Smelt Money thru thirteen issues in the 1990's. He has curated or helped present several reading series in Lawrence since the Mass St. Co-op (circa 1968) and today can often be found at the Taproom Poetry Series. Publications include dozens of chapbook and books and publications in journals and online.

Krystal Languell, Emily Skillings, and Dave Snyder

Krystal Languell, Emily Skillings, and Dave Snyder

5pm Sunday October 29

Krystal Languell lives in Chicago. She is the author of two books, Call the Catastrophists (BlazeVox, 2011) and Gray Market (1913 Press, 2016), and five chapbooks. A NYSCA/NYFA 2017 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Poetry, she previously completed a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council workspace residency in 2014-15 and a Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship in 2013-14. She was an adjunct in New York City for seven years.

Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017), which Publishers Weekly called a "fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut," as well as two chapbooks, Backchannel (Poor Claudia) and Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Recent poems can be found/are forthcoming in Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Hyperallergic, LitHub, and jubilat. Skillings is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017. She splits her time between Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.

Dave Snyder likes to write poetry and short fiction. He is from Massachusetts and has lived in Upstate New York, Denver, Colorado, and Kalaw, Myanmar. He is currently teaching, living, reading, and writing at the University of Kansas.

Mercedes Lucero, Heather Derr-Smith, and Leah Sewell

Mercedes Lucero, Heather Derr-Smith, and Leah Sewell

5pm Sunday, September 24th

Mercedes Lucero is the author of the chapbook, In the Garden of Broken Things (Flutter Press 2016). Her poetry and prose has appeared in The Pinch, Heavy Feather Review, and Curbside Splendor among others. A Glimmer Train "Short Fiction Award" Finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee, you can find her at www.mercedeslucero.com.

Heather Derr-Smith is a poet and human rights activist and the author of four books of poetry, Each End of the World (Main Street Rag Press, 2005), The Bride Minaret (University of Akron Press, 2008), Tongue Screw (Spark Wheel Press, 2016), and Thrust winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award (Persea Books, 2017. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and divides her time between Iowa and Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Leah Sewell is the author of Mother-Ghosts and Birth in Storm and her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, burnt district, [PANK], Bridge Eight and elsewhere. She's the founder of Microburst, the Andy Warhol Foundation-supported zine of art, literature and politics and mother to two young rabble rousers-in-training. She lives in Topeka where she teaches English at Washburn University and pieces together a meager but satisfying living off of writing, graphic design and other stuff she loves.

Erica Lewis, Lauren Hunter, Hannah Warren

erica lewis lives in San Francisco where she is a fine arts publicist. In addition to mary wants to be a superwoman, her books include the precipice of jupiter, camera obscura (both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory, and daryl hall is my boyfriend. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lauren Hunter is the author of HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS (Birds, LLC 2017) and the chapbook My Own Fires (Brothel Books 2011). Her voice can be found inside the Poetry Jukebox in New York’s East Village, on the experimental track AM Radio by Marselle, and in poems forthcoming from Jubilat and The Recluse. Lauren currently lives in her hometown of Durham, North Carolina.

Hannah Warren is an MFA student at the University of Kansas, and her works have appeared recently in Soundings East, Jet Fuel Review, and Spirit’s Tincture. In her spare time, Hannah paints terribly and imagines a day in which she can live in a city made of trees. Most importantly, Hannah often writes about death but hopes never to experience it.