Name: Poetry at the Pub: Richard Stimac and Ken Gierke & Open Mic
Start: 2025-09-16T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 600 N Rolla St, Rolla, MO 65401-3111, United States

Poetry at the Pub: Richard Stimac and Ken Gierke & Open Mic

Join us for an evening of poetry. Our featured readers are Richard Stimac and Ken Gierke. Bring your own work to share at open mic.
Richard Stimac has published a poetry book Bricolage (Spartan Press), two poetry chapbooks, and one flash fiction chapbook. In his work, Richard explores time and memory through the landscape and humanscape of the St. Louis region.
Ken Gierke is a retired truck driver, transplanted to Missouri from Western New York. After only ten years here, he is actually coming to think of Missouri as home, in spite of muddy water and a dearth of maple trees. He is the author of Glass Awash (Spartan Press 2022) and Random Riffs (Spartan Press 2025), and his poetry has appeared in several anthologies.