Name: Poetry Open Mic featuring Barbara Ungar
Start: 2024-06-05T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-05T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Caffe Lena

A featured poet reads for 20 minutes, then the mic is open for participants: two short poems or one longer poem, with a limit of 5 minutes
Barbara Ungar’s sixth book, After Naming the Animals, has just been published by The Word Works. Prior books include Save Our Ship, which won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Poetry Prize; Immortal Medusa, and Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life. She has published recently in Scientific American, Crazyhorse, and Gargoyle. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. The Standish Chair in English at The College of Saint Rose, she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. www.barbaraungar.net