Molly Malones

Monday, December 14th


7 pm -- open mic sign-up
7:30 -- open mic
9:00 --featured reader
7652 Madison Street, Forest Park
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

Ralph Hamilton is an editor of RHINO and has an MFA in poetry from Bennington. In Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit says, “She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”—and Ralph looks for the same quality in poems: something to slice the world open, to reawaken perception, make it stranger, less certain, make living in this moment keener, more desperate, more delicate, its bruised beauty more manifest. Ralph’s recent publications include A Writer’s Congress: Chicago Poets on the Inauguration of Barak Obama, Talisman: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and the upcoming Court Green.