Enjoy listening to poetry and storytelling—or share some writing of your own—with Poetry in the Boro on Sunday, Feb. 9. Our features will be poet Cara Dees along with recent contributors to Collage magazine, MTSU’s student-produced, bi-annual magazine of creative arts. An hour of open mic follows the features.
We’ll be at the Walnut House, 116 N. Walnut. This event is free and open to the public, thanks to support from MTSU Write.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. After the features, there’s time to mingle and purchase books before our open mic time begins. Readers can share one piece of poetry or spoken word. Reading a favorite poem by another writer is fine, too. If your piece is over 4 minutes, please speak to the hosts to see if we can accommodate that.
Street parking is available for the Walnut House along Walnut, Main and College. There are no parking time limits enforced after 5 PM.
THEME CHALLENGE: This month’s challenge is to write a poem that somehow relates to the word or idea of “stranger.”
ABOUT OUR FEATURES
CARA DEES is the author of the debut collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, selected by Ada Limón for the 2018 Barrow Street Book Prize. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati, she holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University. She is an Editorial Assistant at The Cincinnati Review and is the former Poetry Editor of Nashville Review and former Managing Editor of The Arkansas International. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was named the runner-up in the 2018 Third Coast Poetry Contest. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2016 and 2019, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Poetry Daily, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
COLLAGE magazine has been a student-produced, bi-annual magazine of creative arts at MTSU since 1968. Several recent contributors will be reading.