Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

With guest poets James Dorr and Andrew Hubbard

Followed by an Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

Andrew Hubbard was born and raised in a coastal Maine fishing village.  He earned degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and Columbia University.

 He has published four prose books, and most recently four collections of poetry: Things That Get You (2014), The Divining Rod (2016), Meeting the Moon Halfway (2018), and Hit a Snag (2020).

For most of his career he has worked as Director of Training for major financial institutions, creating and delivering Sales, Management, and Technical training for user groups of up to 4,000.

He is a casual student of cooking and wine, a former martial arts instructor and competitive weight lifter, a collector of edged weapons, and a licensed handgun instructor.  He lives in rural Indiana with his son, his wife, a giant, black German Shepard, and a gaggle of semi-tame deer.

James Dorr is a short fiction writer and poet, specializing in dark fantasy/horror, with forays into mystery and science fiction. His The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, with his latest book, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press.

Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician.

He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.

For more information he invites readers to visit his blog, at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com

——————————————————–

The Writers Guild at Bloomington is committed to fostering diversity and welcomes
members regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation , religious affiliation and ability.