Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic Featuring Lisa Wiley & Peter Marcus

Takes place on the first Wednesday of every month & hosted by Carol Graser. Sign ups at 7, readings at 7:30. Open mic poets read two short poems or one longer poem. All ages & styles welcome. Aprils Features: Peter Marucus & Lisa Wiley. Peter Marcus is the author of one collection of poetry, Dark Square, published in 2012 by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, New York, NY. His poems have appeared in over 60 literary journals and magazines including: AGNI, Antioch Review, Boulevard, Brilliant Corners, Gastronomica, New England Review, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Quarterly West, Shenandoah Southern Review, Witness, and others. He has poems in two human rights anthologies, I Go To Ruined Places (2009) and Before There Is Nowhere To Stand (2012), both published by Lost Horse Press in Sandpoint, Idaho, and in an anthology of young poets, On the Verge, published by AGNI/Faber and Faber in 1993. He has been a recipient of a Connecticut Fellowship for the Arts grant (2005) and a resident fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2013). Lisa Wiley is an English professor at Erie Community College, North Campus, and co-hosts the Just Buffalo Literary Cafe/Center for Inquiry Reading Series. Her books include ?Chamber Music,? a chapbook of 21 villanelles (Finishing Line Press, 2103) and My Daughter Wears Her Evil Eye to School (The Writer's Den, 2015)