Join us for poetry and light refreshment as we welcome Jay Deshpande, Sasha Fletcher, Kirkwood Adams, Michelle Taransky & Peter LaBerge.
Sasha Fletcher is the author of “it is going to be a good year” (Big Lucks Books, 2016), several chapbooks of poetry, and an out of print novella.
Jay Deshpande is the author of” Love the Stranger “(YesYes Books), named one of the top debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers. The 2015 winner of the Scotti Merrill Memorial Award, his poems have appeared in Boston Review, Sixth Finch, the PEN Poetry Series, Poem-a-Day, Prelude, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
“Kirkwood Adams has no bio.”
Michelle Taransky is the author of” Sorry Was In the Woods” (Omnidawn Publishing) and “Barn Burned, Then”(Omnidawn Publishing), selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky is on faculty of the critical writing department at The University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches writing and was recently awarded the Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring. She is also reviews editor of Jacket2.
Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbook “Hook”(Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), recently included on the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow List. His recent work appears or will soon appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets 2014, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Sixth Finch, among others. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.
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