Poetry Reading

Three Poets:
Tara Bray, Aaron McCollough, and Jennifer K. Sweeney.
A limited edition broadside designed by Katie Platte will be available.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Park Trades Building
326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103 A

7pm - 8:30pm
Free and Open to the Public


Tara Bray received an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Third Coast, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere. In 2006, she was awarded a State of Nevada Individual Artist Fellowship and a Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Artist Grant. She currently resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband, poet William Notter, and their daughter.

Aaron McCollough's third book of poems, Little Ease, is available from Ahsahta Press. His other books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). McCollough's poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Volt, Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Colorado Review, LIT, American Letters & Commentary, Verse, Typo, and other periodicals.

Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of Salt Memory, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award. She won the 2007 poetry prize from The Ledge. Twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in: Subtropics, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Puerto del Sol, Spoon River and others. She serves as assistant editor for DMQ Review and is newly relocated to Michigan from San Francisco with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney.