Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic - 03/07/2012

Poetry Open Mic with featured readers Julianna Spallholz & Jordan Smith

This event is part of a poetry open mic series with featured readers that takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. March's featured writers are Jullianna Spallholz and Jordan Smith. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7 and the readings starts at 7:30. Each open mic poet reads two short poems or one long one. Julianna Spallholz's short fiction and prose poetry have been widely published. She currently teaches writing and English HVCC. The State of Kansas, collection of short and very short fictions, is her debut collection. Juliannaspallholz.com. Jordan Smith has published six volumes of poetry, his latest, The Names of Things Are Leaving is the winner of the Tampa Review Prize for poetry. His work has been published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review and Poetry, among others. He teaches at Union College.