Please join us for readings by Joel Brouwer, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Jean Hartig. Musical guest tba.

Joel Brouwer is the author of three books of poems: Exactly What Happened (Purdue, 1999), Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003), and And So (Four Way Books, 2009). He has held fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Progressive, Tin House, Washington Post Book World, and other publications. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and teaches at the University of Alabama.

Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of ON THE KITCHEN TABLE FROM WHICH EVERYTHING HAS BEEN HASTILY REMOVED (Hollyridge Press, 2009), shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities (Tin House/Bloomsbury Press, 2003), and And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997). Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including four Best American Poetry volumes, and have won a Pushcart Prize. Grants from the Alaska and Juneau Arts Councils as well as the Rona Jaffe, Rasmuson and Guggenheim Foundations have helped her to continue to try and write poems in Anchorage, Alaska.

JEAN HARTIG received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007. Her work has appeared in Dirt and Sink Review and her chapbook, Ave, Materia, selected by Fanny Howe as winner of a New York City Chapbook Fellowship, was published in April, 2009 by the Poetry Society of America.