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Sparks in the Dark – Online Poetry with Rolly Kent

Join us online for our online poetry series. This week we're honored to feature Rolly Kent.  Click here for the link. After attending Middlebury College, Rolly Kent received an MFA from the University of Arizona. For many years he taught poetry around the Southwest and on many tribal lands. He ran one of the first…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Malachi Black

Click here for the link to today's online poetry session. Malachi Black is also the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2024, and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Ellen Steinbaum

Click here for the Zoom link. Ellen Steinbaum is the author of four poetry collections and a one-person play. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and is included in several anthologies including The  Widows’ Handbook and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems American Places. An award-winning journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, she writes a…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with James Davis

Click here to join us for this week's poetry session. James Davis is the author of Club Q, which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and The Waywiser Press published in 2020. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011, selected…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Dane Cervine

Click here to join the event on January 10 at 12:30 p.m. Dane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword, from Saddle Road Press. Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark…

January Book Club – The Witches by Stacy Schiff

Join us in person or via Zoom (click here for the link) for our monthly book club. This month we'll be discussing The Witches by Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra. From GoodReads: "The Witches is Schiff's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled--in crackling detail and lyrical prose--by one of our…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Mike Jurkovic

Click here to join today's poetry session. Published globally with little to no reportable income. Full length collections include the upcoming haiku collection, Monet’s Bamboo, (CAPS Press, 2024) and Buckshot Reckoning (Luchador Press, 2023). mooncussers, (Luchador Press 2022); AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020); Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2018). Anthologies: Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology,…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Dennis Sweeney

Click here to join today's poetry session. Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You’re the Woods Too and In the Antarctic Circle, as well as four chapbooks of poetry and prose, including Ghost/Home: A Beginner’s Guide to Being Haunted.  His first book, In the Antarctic Circle, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and…

Spark in the Dark Online Poetry – Slapering Hol Press Affiliated Poets

Susana H. Case has authored nine books of poetry, most recently If This Isn’t Love, BroadstoneBooks, 2023. She has won several Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, an IPPY, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite award, and she was a Finalist twice and an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, as well as Finalist…

February Book Club – The Guest by Emma Cline

Join us on February 8 for our February Book Club featuring The Guest by Emma Cline. Click here for a link to this hybrid event. A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp…