SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT!
Back to 2nd WED Next Month
featuring poets John Dorsey and Chris Harter
OPEN MIC following the features
Sponsored in part by the Bloomington Arts Commission and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
JOHN DORSEY is the former Poet Laureate of Belle MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems: 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023), and 100 Mornings (Sacred Parasite, 2025).
CHRIS HARTER is the University Archivist and Head of the Archives and Rare Book Library for the University of Cincinnati. He received his MLS degree from IU in Bloomington, where he started Bathtub Gin, a renowned indie poetry publication. Lately his own publications have focused on the history of little magazines and small presses, including An Author Index to Little Magazines of the Mimeograph Revolution (Scarecrow Press, 2008) and A Bibliography of John Bennett’s Vagabond Press, 1966-2005 (University of Buffalo, 2018).
