The Racine Public Library, 75 Seventh St, will host a poetry reading and reception for three accomplished poets visiting the Racine area on Saturday, November 6 from 7:00-9:00 pm. Doors will open at the library at 6:30 for this free event. Performing readings at the evening gathering will be poets MC Hyland, Brian Oliu, and Joseph P. Wood.
MC Hyland is the author of Neveragainland, forthcoming this winter from Lowbrow Press. Her chapbooks include Every Night In Magic City (H_NGM_N, 2010), Residential, As In (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and (with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck) the hesitancies (Small Fires Press, 2006). She lives in Minneapolis, where she runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab Reading Series, and works as an administrator and occasional letterpress instructor at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, Sonora Review, WebConjunctions, Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, and elsewhere.
Joseph P. Wood is the author of the forthcoming books Fold of the Map (Salmon Poetry) and I & We (CW Books) as well as five chapbooks. Newish poems can be found in BOMB, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Hunger Mountain, Verse, among others. He is co-founder of Slash Pine Press and director of the Slash Pine Poetry Festival and Slash Pine Writer Hikes in Tuscaloosa, AL.
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