Improved Lighting Reading Series
presents
poetry readings by
Tom Andes
Traci
BrimhallCorrie Williamson
Chris Wong
plus music by
The Rhubarbs
Saturday, April 28, 7pm
LalaLand
@ The Art Experience
641 MLK Blvd.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
$1-5 suggested donation
Improved Lighting Reading Series hosts monthly readings, mostly poetry and mostly
Saturdays, with occasional musical acts, at Nightbird Books. Free
admission. Curated by Roger Barrett,
Kaveh Bassiri, and Matthew Henriksen.
Visit
us at improvedlighting.blogspot.com.
Contact
improvedlighting@gmail.com.
Author Bios and Links
Tom Andes’ poetry,
fiction, and criticism have appeared or will be forthcoming in News from the Republic of Letters,
Santa Clara Review, Mantis, Bateau, Everyday Genius, 3:AM Magazine, elimae, Pif, and the Rumpus, among other
publications. A hand-sewn chapbook, Life
Before the Storm and Other Stories, appeared in a limited run from Cannibal
Books in 2010. His story “The Hit,” which first appeared in Xavier Review, will appear in Best American Mystery Stories 2012. He lives in Oakland,
California.
Traci Brimhall is the
author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W.
Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize,
and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner
of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the
ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in New England
Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, The Missouri
Review, Kenyon Review, FIELD, Indiana Review and Southern
Review. She is a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a current Emerging Writer Fellow at
The Writer’s Center, and the 2012 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of
Mississippi. She has also received scholarships and fellowships to the Sewanee
Writers’ Conference and the Disquiet International Literary Program. She
holds degrees from Florida State University and Sarah Lawrence College.
Currently, she teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University where
she is a doctoral candidate and a King/Chávez/Parks Fellow. She also serves
as Editor at Large for Loaded Bicycle.
A native of Virginia, Corrie Williamson is
completing her third year in the MFA Program at the University of Arkansas,
where she has taught and served as director of the Writers in the Schools
Program. She received the 2011 Walton Fellowship in Poetry, and recently her
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, The
Southeast Review, cream city review, 32 Poems, and
elsewhere.
Chris Wong is the author of “Songs for Margaret Cravens.” His work has
appeared in a number of journals, including Art
Amiss, Caffeine Destiny and the Shadyside Review. He currently
lives in Fayetteville, AR where he teaches English at the University of
Arkansas.
The Rhubarbs is the
musical project of Sam King, Katy Henriksen, and C. Violet Eaton. They cover
Richard Pryor-approved songs on guitar, banjo, and voice.
