Saturday, December 17th @ 7:30PM
Four award-winning poets converging for this great event!
ADAM DAY is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha. He is also the recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize, and a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work owes a debt to the editors of the Boston Review, Guernica, AGNI, Forklift: Ohio, The Kenyon Review, and others. He is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council grant. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, and is an editor for the literary and comics journal, Catch Up. Currently, he is writer-in-residence at Earlham College.
HANNAH GAMBLE is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series (Fence Books, 2012). She lives in Chicago where she is the Poet-in-Residence at Children’s Memorial Hospital and teaches Literature and Writing at Prairie State College. Her poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.
GARY L. MCDOWELL is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry, and is also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems have appeared in various literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, The Indiana Review, The Laurel Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, and Quarterly West. He lives in Nashville, TN where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Belmont University.
RICK HILLES is the author of Brother Salvage, winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize (Pitt Poetry Series, 2006) and named 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares; he’s been the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar, a Stegner fellow at Stanford, and a Halls fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He grew up in northeastern Ohio and is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Vanderbilt University.
And if a couple of unique teas aren’t enough to get you going after the holidays, consider the newest addition to our chocolate offerings, a single-origin Costa Rican chocolate bar made by 
Just in time for Christmas, we have a great little coffee tasting journal titled “33 Cups of Coffee.” It is beautifully designed by Dave Seldon, a beer and beverage nerd who runs 33books.com out of Portland, Oregon.
