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Union Ave Books is excited to present a Poetry Night in celebration of First Fridays, featuring Chris Barton, Shira Haus, and Micah McCrotty. This event will take place on August 2nd from 6-8pm at our bookstore. This is a free event. Please RSVP here.Chris Barton is the author of the chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Mergoat Mag, and elsewhere. He currently bartends at Kaizen and lives in South Knoxville with a big orange cat named Scrunty.
Shira Haus (she/her) is a queer, Jewish writer pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her work has appeared in HAD, West Trade Review, and Honey Literary, among others. She has received support from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and placed third in the 2024 Pinch Literary Awards for poetry. She works as an Associate Poetry Editor for Grist Journal, a reader for The Maine Review, and the Reading Series Coordinator for Sundress Publications.
Micah Daniel McCrotty lives near Piedmont, Tennessee with his wife Katherine. His poetry has previously appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sycamore Review, and The Fourth River among others.
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517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902
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