March 10, 2012


Improved Lighting Reading Series
presents
poetry readings by
Martin Bemberg
Geoffrey Brock
Wayne Miller
Sara Nicholson
plus music by
Brian Kupillas
Saturday, March 10, 7pm
Nightbird Books
205 West Dickson Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas
FREE!


Improved Lighting Reading Series hosts monthly readings, mostly poetry and mostly Saturdays, with occasional musical acts, at Nightbird Books. Free admission. Authors books available for purchase through the bookstore. Curated by Roger Barrett, Kaveh Bassiri, and Matthew Henriksen. Visit us at improvedlighting.blogspot.com. Contact improvedlighting@gmail.com.

Author Bios and Links
Martin Bemberg is the editor of PlumBum Verse singer/songwriter of Memphis Pencils.



Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of several books from Italian, including Cesare Pavese's Disaffections. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.



Brian Kupillas plays music in of Swimming, Where's Lawrence, and The Wandering.


Wayne Miller is the author of three poetry collections: The City, Our City (Milkweed, 2011), The Book of Props (2009), and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He also translated Moikom Zeqo’s I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007) and co-edited both New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). The recipient of 6 Poetry Society of America Awards, the Bess Hokin Prize and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches as the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades and Pleiades Press.


Sara Nicholson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD student at the University of Arkansas.  Her poems can be found in The Quarterly Review, transition, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTALLION, The Jargon Society, Bitch Tits, and Ouch!: A Journal of Light Verse.