Last Sunday Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

With guest poets:  Nancy Chen Long and Eric Rensberger

PLEASE NOTE:  Due to a family emergency, Karen George will not be able to come to Bloomington for this reading. We look forward to having her as a guest reader on another date.

Following the two guest readers there is an Open Mic.

This event is FREE.

There is FREE parking in the back.

Nancy Chen Long is the author of Light into Bodies (University of Tampa Press, 2017), winner of the Tampa Review Poetry Prize. She is the grateful recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing fellowship and a writer residency at Ox-Bow School of the Arts. Her work was selected as the winner of the 2019 Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award and has been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Indiana Humanities. You’ll find her current work in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Smartish Pace, The Adroit Journal, Tar River Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She works in Research Technologies at Indiana University.

Eric Rensberger is a local poet who has spent the last few decades adding to his chronological collection Account of My Days. His concerns are time, nature, and human folly and vulnerability. He writes poetry as a form of play he first learned in childhood.