10/18 Friday: Philadelphia

Moonstone Arts: Brandywine Workshop

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Bruce Krameris a writer from Philadelphia. Most of his work has appeared in boring technical documents, medical publications, and marketing propaganda, but he has also been published in the occasional magazine and literary publication. He believes in cold beer, rock and roll, and baseball. He sometimes acts like he is named after Bruce Springsteen, but he knows he is named after somebody much cooler. He has poetry forthcoming from Barrelhouse Magazine and you can read his poetry in the Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/11June/BruceKramer.html

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Rodger Lowenthal  is a poet from Montgomery County. His poetry and book reviews have appeared in a number of small press and electronic publications. He hosts a quarterly reading series at his home featuring poets and musicians. Rodger is an occasional book reviewer and host for the Fox Chase Review and Reading Series. You can also read his poetry in The Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/09AW/23-RLowenthal.html

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of the full-length poetry collection, With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women (Aldrich Press, 2012), and three poetry chapbooks, including her first, “After Voices,” published by Burning River in 2009. Her experimental book An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir will be published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2014.

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Christopher Bowen’s fiction has appeared in over a dozen journals, including Everyday Genius, Hobart and recently, Ginosko. His chapbook, We Were Giants, is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. While having read throughout a handful of states, he has served as a resident writer in Quebec in 2012 and runs the blog and small press, Burning River.

10/20 Sunday: Baltimore

The Town Square Series @ Minas Gallery

Host: Jessica Lynn Dotson

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Jessica is a graphic designer & poet, with a special love of grease & diesel. Poems from her in-progress manuscript, Asphalt Amens, appear in Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore, jmww, Lines + Stars, and Broadkill Review. She curates the Town Square reading series in Baltimore, Maryland and is Art & Design Editor of Free State Review.

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Alan King is an author, poet, and journalist. He’s taught workshops through the D.C./Baltimore region including at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop. He’s a Cave Canem Fellow and an alumnus of the VONA Workshops sponsored by Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Low-Residency Program at the University of Southern Maine. He’s a two-time Best of the Net nominee and was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Drift (Aquarius Press, 2012) is his first book.

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of the full-length poetry collection, With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women (Aldrich Press, 2012), and three poetry chapbooks, including her first, “After Voices,” published by Burning River in 2009. Her experimental book An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir will be published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2014.

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Christopher Bowen’s fiction has appeared in over a dozen journals, including Everyday Genius, Hobart and recently, Ginosko. His chapbook, We Were Giants, is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. While having read throughout a handful of states, he has served as a resident writer in Quebec in 2012 and runs the blog and small press, Burning River.

10/21 Monday, Washington, D.C.

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10/23 Wednesday, 8 p.m.: Boston

Out of the Blue Gallery

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Rusty Barnes grew up in rural north­ern Appalachia. He received his B.A. from Mans­field Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and his M.F.A. from Emer­son Col­lege. His fic­tion, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in over two hun­dred  jour­nals and antholo­gies.  After edit­ing fic­tion for the Bea­con Street Review (now Redi­vider) and Zoetrope All-Story Extra, he co-founded Night Train, a lit­er­ary jour­nal which was fea­tured in theBoston GlobeThe New York Times, and on National Pub­lic Radio, end­ing its ten-year-run in Feb­ru­ary 2012. Sun­ny­out­side Press pub­lished two col­lec­tions of fic­tion, Break­ing it Down and Mostly Red­neckMiPOe­sias pub­lished two chap­books of poetry Red­neck Poems  and Broke. Sun­ny­out­side Press will pub­lish his novel, The Reck­on­ing, in early 2014. Cruel Joke Press will pub­lish his poetry col­lec­tion, I AM NOT ARIEL in Novem­ber 2013 He is sole proprietor at Fried Chicken and Coffee (http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com), a journal of rural and Appalachian literature and interests.
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Timothy Gager is the author of ten books of short fiction and poetry. His latest The Shutting Door (Ibbetson Street Press) is his first full length poetry book in over eight years. h He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past eleven years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.
His work has appeared in over 250 journals since 2007 and of which nine have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His fiction has been read on National Public Radio.
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Samantha Milowsky is the founder and managing editor of Amethyst Arsenic. Her poems and essays have appeared in 2River ViewScholars & RoguesSpoonfulStirringRevolution HouseVIDA HerKind, and White Whale Review. She also has a Soundcloud for her music.
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Teisha Twomey is currently working on her MFA in Poetry at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and is an assistant editor and reviewer at Wilderness House Press. Teisha’s work has appeared in Ibbetson Street , Fried Chicken and CoffeeThe Santa Fe Literary ReviewMetazen, Poetica and the “Wasn’t That Special?” Anthology.

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of the full-length poetry collection, With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women (Aldrich Press, 2012), and three poetry chapbooks, including her first, “After Voices,” published by Burning River in 2009. Her experimental book An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir will be published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2014.

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Christopher Bowen’s fiction has appeared in over a dozen journals, including Everyday Genius, Hobart and recently, Ginosko. His chapbook, We Were Giants, is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. While having read throughout a handful of states, he has served as a resident writer in Quebec in 2012 and runs the blog and small press, Burning River.

10/25 Friday, 7 p.m.: N.Y.C. 

Mellow Pages Library with host, poet George Wallace

George Wallace is author of 26 chapbooks of poetry, writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and a regular on the NYC poetry performance scene. He’s a co-editor at Great Weather for Media, a highly regarded cutting edge literary publication in New York. George is actively involved in poetry communities across the US and in the UK, and frequently visits Cleveland — where he is published and presented by Green Panda and NightBallet. He’s just returned from his eleventh performance tour of England.

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Micah Ling’s third collection of poems, Settlement, was published bySunnyoutside Press. She teaches in the English department at Fordham University in Manhattan, and lives in Brooklyn. She won the 2011 Indiana Authors Award.

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Miles Budimir is the author of two chapbooks, Departures (2012, Burning River Press) and Rustbelt Romance (2006, deep cleveland press). His poems have also appeared in Poetry Motel, MoonLit, ArtCrimes,The Long Islander, and the Toledo Free Press among others. He works as a philosophy lecturer and freelance technical writer and editor in the greater Cleveland area. 

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of the full-length poetry collection, With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women (Aldrich Press, 2012), and three poetry chapbooks, including her first, “After Voices,” published by Burning River in 2009. Her experimental book An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir will be published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2014.

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Christopher Bowen’s fiction has appeared in over a dozen journals, including Everyday Genius, Hobart and recently, Ginosko. His chapbook, We Were Giants, is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. While having read throughout a handful of states, he has served as a resident writer in Quebec in 2012 and runs the blog and small press, Burning River.