Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook

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Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs; St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris; and, forthcoming in 2021, The Long Way Home.

Daniel Nester‘s most recent book is Shader, a memoir. Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate, God Save My Queen I and II, and The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which Nester edited. His recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Collagist, Bennington Review, and Electric Literature.

Catie Rosemurgy’s poetry collections include The Stranger Manual (2010), My Favorite Apocalypse (2001), and the chapbook First the Burning (2018). Her poems have been featured in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets (2004), Poetry 30 (2005), and Best American Poetry (1997).

This event, Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris July 3, 1971: A Tribute, will also feature readings from Arthur Rimbaud by Maxwell Gontarek and Léa Fougerolle and William Blake & The Eternals.

Jennifer Hook, Host