Poetry Open Mic with Featured Readers Nancy White and George Drew
Caffe Lena Saratoga Springs, NY
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This is a pay-at-the-door event. Cover charge is $5.
Nancy White's Sun, Moon, Salt won the Washington Prize; her second book, Detour, came out on Tamarack Editions in 2010. She publishes in a range of literary journals, from Ploughshares and FIELD to Rattle and Nimrod. She is editor-in-chief and president at The Word Works based in Washington, DC.
George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He is the author of five collections of poetry: Toads in a Poisoned Tank, from Tamarack Editions; The Horse's Name Was Physics, from Turning Point; American Cool, from Tamarack; The Hand that Rounded Peter's Dome, from Turning Point; and The View from Jackass Hill, the 2010 winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, from Texas Review Press. Drew's sixth collection, Fancy's Orphan, will be published in 2017 by Tiger Bark Press, and his New & Selected, Pastoral Habits, by Texas Review Press in 2016. Down & Dirty, a chapbook, was released by Texas Review Press in June, 2015. Drew is the winner of the 2014 St. Petersburg Review Poetry Prize.
Open Mic readers should plan about 5 minutes of readings. All ages and styles are welcome.
Location
Caffe Lena (View)
47 Phila St
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
United States
