Poetry Open Mic with Featured Readers Lori Desrosiers and Jackie Craven
Caffe Lena Saratoga Springs, NY
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Admission is $5 at the door. You cannot sign up in advance online to read.
Lori Desrosiers' debut full-length book of poems, The Philosopher's Daughter, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2013. A chapbook, Inner Sky, is from Glass Lyre Press. Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak will be out from Salmon in 2016. She edits Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry. She teaches Literature and Composition at Westfield State University and Holyoke Community College, and Poetry in the Interdisciplinary Studies program for the Lesley University M.F.A. graduate program.
Jackie Craven writes poetry and fiction for literary journals, and covers architecture and travel topics for various publications. She also fixes up old houses and rents apartments to interesting people who feed her muse. She has work published or forthcoming in The Asheville Poetry Review, Chautauqua, The Fourth River, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Pembroke Magazine, Quiddity, Salamander, Stone Canoe Journal, Water~Stone Review, and other journals.
Doors open and sign-up begins at 7. Readings begin at 7:30. Please plan to share one long poem or two short poems, altogether lasting no more than three to five minutes. All ages and styles welcome.
Admission is $5 at the door.
This event is sponsored by Northshire Bookstore
Location
Caffe Lena (View)
47 Phila St
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
United States
