Spring 2008 Events Schedule
February 28, Laura Van Prooyen visit the Bridgman, MI Elementary School for a day of workshops with third graders
Laura Van Prooyen’s first book of poetry, Inkblot and Altar, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2006. Her poems have also appeared in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, and 32 Poems among others. She has worked as an editor, teacher and mentor with incarcerated youth, and has been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Illinois with her husband and three young daughters.
April 27, 2:00 p.m. Erin Keane and Jonathan Weinert at the Box Factory for the arts. Open mic will follow the reading. Arrive by 1:45 to sign up for the open mic.
Erin Keane is the author of The Gravity Soundtrack, a full-length collection of poems (WordFarm, 2007). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming in many magazines, including Nimrod, Phoebe, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sou'wester, Poems & Plays, New Southerner, Now & Then and Louisville Magazine.
A recipient of a fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, she directs the InKY Reading Series in Louisville, Ky. Keane also writes a blog for Velocity and serves on the editorial boards of New Southerner and The Heartland Review. She teaches sophomores about Pop Music in American Literature at Bellarmine University and high school creative writing workshops for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts. Keane earned her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University and won the 2003 National Society of Arts and Letters Kentucky Chapter prize for literature.
Jonathan Weinert’s debut collection, In the Mode of Disappearance (Nightboat Books, 2008), was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize. A graduate of Brandeis University and the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program, he serves as web editor for the letterpress journal Tuesday; An Art Project, and as a poetry editor for the online journal Perihelion. Jonathan’s poems appear in AGNI Online, Pleiades, Third Coast, Harvard Review, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, and elsewhere.