Wednesday, May 22, 2013

RHINO Reads! Friday 5/31 Open Mic and Featured Poet Lee Sharkey


RHINO Reads!


Open Mike: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Featured Poets: 6:45 pm – 7:30 pm

Brothers K, 500 Main St., Evanston (Directions)

Lee Sharkey is the author of the recently released Calendars of Fire (Tupelo, 2013), A Darker, Sweeter String(Off the Grid, 2008), and eight earlier full-length poetry collections and chapbooks. Her poems have appeared recently in Consequence, Crazyhorse, FIELD, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, The Pinch, and The Seattle Review. Her awards include the Maine Arts Commission’s 2010 Fellowship in Literary Arts, the 1997 Rainmaker Award in Poetry, and the Abraham Sutzkever Centennial Translation Prize. She lives in the woods near Farmington, Maine, where she co-edits the Beloit Poetry Journal.