Upcoming Events and Readings

Blue Light Reading Series

March 25th, 2011 (7:00 p.m.): Poetry Reading
University Club, Indiana Memorial Union
Steve Scafidi, Erika Meitner, and Curtis Bauer will be reading their poems.

Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (2001) and For Love of Common Words (2006), both from Louisiana State University Press. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in West Virginia.

Erika Meitner is the author of Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore (Anhinga Press, 2003), and Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner. Her third collection, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, will be published by Anhinga Press in 2011. Meitner's poems have appeared most recently in APR, Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, The New Republic, and on Slate.com. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.

Listen to Erika read "Yiddishland," featured in Issue 32.1 here:

Curtis Bauer is the author of the poetry collection Fence Line (BkMk Press, 2004), which won the 2003 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. A founding member of the poetry collective, 7 Carmine, and the publisher of Q Ave Press chapbooks, Bauer’s poetry, nonfiction and translations have appeared in Barrow Street, The Iowa Review, The North American Review, Rivendell, Runes, and numerous other journals. After living for several years in Mexico, Spain and Iowa, he recently moved to Texas, where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Spanish at Texas Tech University.