MadHat’s Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes at BMCM + AC, Nov. 14

Press release:

Saturday, November 14, 8:00 pm
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes
With poets Melissa Crowe, Kevin Evans, Lisa Jarnot, and Thomas Meyer.
$5 for BMCM+AC members / $8 for non-members

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville presents a poetry reading at 8:00pm on Saturday, Nov. 14th featuring poets Melissa Crowe, Kevin Evans, Lisa Jarnot and Thomas Meyer.

Bios:

Melissa Crowe earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in journals like Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Seneca Review, and her second chapbook, Girl, Giant, appeared from Finishing Line Press in late 2013. She’s co-editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and lives in Asheville, NC with her husband, Mark, their daughter, Annabelle, and Sophie, the best little Boston Terrier in the world.

Kevin Evans was born in Maricopa County, Arizona 33 years ago. He was the last of four children born to a military man and a preacher’s daughter. In his pre-pubescent life, he moved a lot from the western to the eastern parts of the US. He discovered his love for writing early; he’d begun writing horror stories by the time he was in the third grade. By his teenage years he’d begun writing poetry. As he matured, mentors such as Glenis Redmond and Chuck Davis encouraged his work and helped him confront the stage fright he experienced in public performances. He’s been writing and performing his work ever since. He located in Asheville in 2010; it’s a city, he says, that enables him “to share his words and his voice.”

Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1967. After studying with the poet Robert Creeley at the University of Buffalo, she earned her MFA from Brown University. Her poetry is known for its startling yet inviting aesthetic. Jarnot has commented, “I think poems are always collage on some level… Collage is a way to force awareness out of the random flow of information that’s constantly bombarding us.” Jarnot is the author of five books of poetry, including Black Dog Songs (2003) and Night Scenes (2008), and many chapbooks. She co-edited the anthology An Anthology of New (American) Poets (1997), and her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus, was published by the University of California Press in 2012. Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 will be published by City Lights in 2013. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens with her husband and daughter.

Thomas Meyer was born on Saint Valentine’s Day and has always lived where there are cows and there is rain: for many years in the Yorkshire Dales, but now and more recently above a vineyard in North Carolina, at the southernmost end of the Appalachians, on the western slope of Happy Hill at Skywinding Farm. After graduating from Bard College, he joined Jonathan Williams in forty years of domestic partnership and advocacy of the Jargon Society. His recent books include Essay Stanzas (Song Cave), Kintsugi , translations of Daode Jing (Flood Editions), Beowulf (punctum), Easy Answers: The I Ching (BlazeVOX), and At Dusk Iridescent: A Gathering of Poems, 1972-1997 (Flood Editions).