Grace Bauer’s most recent book of poems is MEAN/TIME, just published by the University of New Mexico Press. A 20th anniversary re-issue of her ground-breaking collection The Women At The Well was published in 2016 by SFASU Press. Other books include: Nowhere All At Once (winner of the Society of Midland Authors Book of the Year Award for 2015), Retreats & Recognitions and Beholding Eye, as well as several chapbooks. She is also co-editor (with Julie Kane) of the anthology, Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical & Creative Responses to Everette Maddox and is currently co-editing another anthology, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, forthcoming from Lost Horse Press this fall.

Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, translator, and teacher. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Northwestern University and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of six books, most recently: Birds on the Kiswar Tree (2Leaf Press, 2014), a translation from the Spanish of a collection of poems by the Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales; Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Press, 2013), a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; and, as co-author, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Texture Press, 2013), a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in education/academic books. Her previous books include a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Imaginarium (Loonfeather Press, 2005), a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award; A Few Questions about Paradise (Loonfeather Press, 2000); and a chapbook, The Forest: Poems by Besnik Mustafaj (PM Chapbooks, 2001), a translation from the French. Lynn Levin’s poems, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Hopkins Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Cleaver, Wild River River, Painted Bride Quarterly, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and other places. She has received thirteen Pushcart Prize nominations, two grants from the Leeway Foundation, and is a Bucks County, Pennsylvania poet laureate.

Dave Worrell, host

An open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+.