BRIAN PRICE is a writer, director, and audio producer. He has worked in radio and audio publishing since the 1980s working with groups such as the Iowa Radio Project, The Grist Mill Horror Series, Native Voices at the Autry, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. His short comic skits, plays, and monologues have been performed by community groups across the country and two of his plays have been translated into Croatian and Chinese. He is a founding partner in Great Northern Audio Theatre which created and produced 20 years of live Mark Time Radio shows for Minnesota’s Convergence Science Fiction Convention. Their feature-length “In the Embers” received an APA Audie Award for Best Audio Drama in 2017. He has published two books of short fiction, monologues and poetry, “The Old Cart Wrangler, The New Silence, and Other Notions” (2020), and “The Wrong Side of the River and Other Points of Interest” (2022), He has some concerns about the general future of mankind, and often gets paid in T-shirts and “gimme hats.” He is a member in good standing of the “The Electroacoustical Poetical Society.” www.greatnorthernaudio.com

KYLE QUASS and JULIAN DOUGLAS have been collaborating for 20 years. Across this time they have performed in many differing ensembles, co-led several bands, and worked on multiple recording projects. In the process they have formed their own unique shared language blending progressive jazz and contemporary world music. Releases on which they’ve collaborated include Kyle Quass’ Fractured and Julian Douglas’ Talafawa.

 

ZACH HANNAH is an Appalachian expat originally from Portsmouth, OH, now residing in Columbus, OH. A poet, an instigator of poetry, and one half of the SandWich Arts duo, alongside Su Flatt, Zach has taken notes from the creativity and vision of the now retired Writers’ Block Open Mic, producing and co-producing several public events centered around poetry, including the now annual megaphone reading, SHHH, They’ll Hear You, and 6-1-FORT, A Poetic Excuse (to build poetry forts, of course.) He is also the 2nd resident for the Johnstone’s Fund For New Music.

SU FLATT bio forthcoming.

Emerging poets who need a supportive audience, and established poets who want to promote published works: Come 20-50 min. before the 7pm program start time so you can sign up for open mic! Your words are precious. (2-3 min. per open mic participant)

7-8:30 PM (EST) 29 June 2025
Morgenstern Books & Cafe (849 S Auto Mall Rd, Bloomington IN 47401)