Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic Featuring Joan Murray

This monthly event, hosted by Carol Graser, takes place on the first Wednesday of every month and presents a featured poetry reading along with a poetry open mic. May's featured poet is Joan Murray. Joan Murray is a poet, writer, and playwright, whose books include: Swimming for the Ark: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015 (White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series), Looking for the Parade (W. W. Norton), Dancing on the Edge and Queen of the Mist (both from Beacon Press), and The Same Water(Wesleyan University Press). A repeat guest on NPR's Morning Edition, she is also a National Poetry Series Winner, a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship Winner, a Wesleyan New Poets Series Winner, and Winner of Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Award. Open mic sign up starts at 7 and readings start at 7:30. Each open mic poet reads two short poems (less than one page) or one longer poem. All styles of poetry are welcome.