Name: Poetry Open Mic featuring Roger Mitchell
Start: 2024-07-03T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-03T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Caffe Lena

Poetry Open Mic featuring Roger Mitchell

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
Roger Mitchell is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently As Water Moves, (Dos Madres Press, 2023). His new and selected poems, Lemon Peeled the Moment Before, was published by Ausable Press in 2008 and won the Adirondack Center for Writing's "Readers' Choice Award''. The University of Akron Press published his two previous books, Half/Mask, in 2007 and Delicate Bait, which Charles Simic chose for the Akron Prize, in 2003. Other recognition for his writing includes the Midland Poetry Award, the John Ben Snow Award for Clear Pond, a work of nonfiction, plus fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently, he is writing a biography of the poet, Jean Garrigue. He and his wife, the fiction writer, Dorian Gossy, live in Jay, New York.