Writers Guild at Bloomington Spoken Word Series
Featuring Poets Mary Sexton and Lylanne Musselman
music by Jason Fickel
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13th @ 6pm EST
Sponsored in part by the Bloomington Arts Commission and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
Featured Readers
MARY SEXSON is author of the award-winning book 103 in the Light: Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Restoration Press) and co-author of Company of Women: New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press). She has recent work in Reflections on Little Eagle Creek, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal. Her latest book is Her Addiction: An Empty Place at the Table (Finishing Line Press). She has three Pushcart Prize nominations and is part of the INverse Poetry Archives for Hoosier Poets.
LYLANNE MUSSELMAN is an award-winning poet, playwright, and visual artist. Her work has appeared in Poetry Breakfast, The Tipton Poetry Journal, Indianapolis Review, and The Ekphrastic Review, among others, and many anthologies. Musselman is the author of the full-length poetry collection It’s Not Love, Unfortunately (Chatter House Press) and her sixth chapbook is Staring Dementia in the Face from Finishing Line Press.
Guitarist and songwriter JASON FICKEL creates music that connects the heart and soul of the blues with country music’s wry chronicles of loss and longing. Apprenticing with legendary bluesmen in Mississippi, cutting his songwriting teeth in the clubs of Chicago, he has forged a career as an engaging storyteller and skilled performer. And he is a frequent flyer at the Spoken Word Series.
OPEN MIC to follow
BEER & WINE available for purchase