Players Pub Spoken Word Series

Players Pub Spoken Word Series

Sponsored by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

Featuring Joan Hawkins (prose), Emily Bobo (poetry), Samantha Levy-Arnold (fiction)
with music by Evansville poetry band Shakespeare’s Monkey

$5 cover (added to your tab)

There will also be an open mic

Emily Bobo turns poems into public goods (sandwiches! bus passes! books!) through a local, non-profit anthology series that she founded and continues to edit, BOBO BOOKS: 1.1.1. Author of a short book about a girl and her piano, (FUGUE, Lost Horse Press, 2009), Bobo has also published original works in literary magazines, such as Hermeneutic Chaos, december, Seneca Review, and Redivider, and she particularly enjoys collaborating with composers who set her texts to music. Currently, Bobo is Professor of English and Department Chair of Fine Arts & Humanities at Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington, where she teaches writing to single moms, ex-cons, military vets, and other non-traditional students.

Samantha Levy-Arnold earned her Ph.D. in English and creative writing from Florida State University. Her work has been published in various literary journals and anthologies including StoryQuarterly, Hayden Ferry’s Review, and The Chattahoochee Review, and she is an Associate Professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College–Bloomington, where she also serves as an advisor to Phi Theta Kappa and co-coordinator to the Judy O’Bannon Youth Leadership Academy.

Shakespeare’s Monkey was formed in 1999 by Bill Sovern and Jean Ann Kizer. Hailing from Evansville IN, the Monkeys are a performance group that fuses poetry & music, transforming personal experience into metaphor. They have performed in NYC poetry venues such as Dixon Place, CBGB’s, The Poetry Project at St. Marks, The Nuyorican, and Gathering of the Tribes, as well as Gonzo Fest and Insomniacathon Online Poetry Festival.