Join us to listen to some poetry—or share some writing of your own—at Poetry in the Boro at Cultivate Coworking on Sunday evening, 2/26. We’re taking January off, so this will be our first event of 2023.
EVENT DETAILS
Cultivate Coworking is located at 107 W. Lytle St. and has plenty of street parking available on Lytle and College. Doors open for mingling at 5:30 PM and the feature will be at 6:00, with open mic to follow.
ABOUT OUR FEATURE
Clay Steakley is a writer, musician, and theatre artist. His work has been published alongside Aimee Bender’s and Lauren Groff’s in Slake, as well as in Cathexis Northwest Press, Fiction Fix, From the Depths, and Waxing & Waning. He was a finalist for a PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship, and received the Ruby P. Treadway award for creative writing. He was a 2020/21 OZ Arts Art/Porch Art Wire Fellow.
In 2022, Clay released The Fire Cycle, a multidisciplinary collection of poetry, music, film, and visual art. The films screened at the Defy Film Festival and at Kindling Arts Festival in the summer, and the music and book were released in the fall. In 2023, The Fire Cycle will extend to live performance as Clay and collaborator Becca Hoback adapt it into a dance theatre work.
Clay lives in Nashville, where he was born a long time ago. The Fire Cycle book will be available for purchase at our event, and can also be purchased at amazon. Visit thefirecyle.com or instagram.com/claysteakley to learn more.
ABOUT THE OPEN MIC
Open mic readers can share poetry or spoken word: 2 poems or four minutes, whichever comes first. Reading a favorite poem by another writer is fine, too.
We ask that readers be prepared to keep their pieces “PG-13” depending on our venue and audience, which sometimes includes younger people.
CHALLENGE WORDS
Here are our challenge words, chosen by last month’s audience. If you like, write a new piece to share that includes one, some, or ALL of these words:
investigate | champagne | scarlet | explore | respite | cat | thrice | decipher | wrestle | goal
YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED
ADMISSION IS FREE, but a donation of $5 is suggested to help us offset our costs. You can donate using PayPal at paypal.me/poetryintheboro.