Name: Writers Guild Spoken Word Series
Start: 2025-04-10T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Backspace Gallery

OPEN MIC following the features
BEER & WINE available for purchase
THURSDAY, APR 10
6pm EST
featuring poets Thomas Kneeland and Marilyn Wolf
music by Jack Carl
open mic to follow
Sponsored in part by the Bloomington Arts Commission and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
THOMAS KNEELAND is the author of We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep (Marian University Department of Media, Communication, and Design) and a 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize finalist. He is a 2024 Speculative Play & Just Futurities Scholar-in-Residence, which is funded by Indiana University, the Mellon Foundation, IU Indianapolis (IUI) Arts & Humanities Institute, IUI Center for Africana Studies & Culture, and the Ray Bradbury Center. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Elevation Review. His publication credits include The Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, The Amistad, The Citron Review, Vagabond City Lit, Up the Staircase Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Kneeland holds a BA in English Writing from DePauw University, an MA in Ministry from Wesley Seminary, and an MFA in Poetry from Butler University. www.thomaskneeland.com
MARILYN WOLF lives in Indiana and is a member of several writing groups. She has two books of poetry, In Celebration of the Death of Faeries and The Guy: Private Edition. Her writing on Medium.com is a collection of poetry, prose, and essays. Her work is published in anthologies, Indiana’s Poetry Archive, displayed in online and physical galleries, and more. She is a member of local, state, and national poetry organizations and currently an editor of The Howling Owl on Medium. She is a past 1st VP of the Poetry Society of Indiana and current Director on the Board for Indiana Writers Center. www.wolfen25.net
Between songs of foolish longing and scores to symbolic floods, JACK CARL has managed to turn impassioned composition into a full blown pastime.