112 West 6th Street
Bloomington
IN
Writers Guild Spoken Word Series
WEDNESDAY, NOV 1
6pm EST
Backspace Gallery, inside Bonne Fête
112 West 6th Street
on the square in Bloomington IN
FREE
Featuring Ohio poets
Kerry Trautman
and Toledo Poet Laureate
Jonie McIntire
with music by Kyle Quass & Julian Douglas
Open Mic to follow
Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
Ohio born and raised, KERRY TRAUTMAN is a co-founder of ToledoPoet.com and the “Toledo Poetry Museum” page on Facebook, both of which were created to help promote NW Ohio poetry events. She has served as a judge or workshop leader for the Northwest region of Ohio’s “Poetry Out Loud” competition annually since 2016. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and journals, and her books are: Things That Come in Boxes, To Have Hoped, Artifacts, To be Nonchalantly Alive, Marilyn: Self-Portrait, Oil on Canvas, Unknowable Things, and Irregulars. Find links to Kerry’s books and social media at https://linktr.ee/OhioKerry
JONIE McINTIRE is the first female Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio. Her most recent chapbook, Semidomesticated (re-released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022) won Red Flag Poetry’s 2020 chapbook contest. Her prior chapbooks are Beyond the Sidewalk (Nightballet Press, 2017) and Not All Who Are Lost Wander (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She is poetry editor at Of Rust and Glass, Membership Chair at Ohio Poetry Association, and hosts a monthly reading series called Uncloistered Poetry from Toledo, Ohio. https://www.