Please help Monsters of Poetry celebrate both its 7th anniversary and final reading (for the forseeable future). Monsters of Poetry is honored to be going out in a blaze of glory with Matt Hart, Amanda Smeltz, Natalie Eilbert, and Jamel Brinkley reading from their work, and the music of El PAVEMENTE, a Pavement cover band featuring members of Madison music legends El Valiente, Oedipus Tex, and Cribshitter. Doors = 7:30pm, Reading = 8pm.
Monsters of Poetry October 2016
Matt Hart’s most recent books are Radiant Action (H_NGM_N Books, 2016) and Radiant Companion (Monster House Press, 2016). A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and the Chair of Liberal Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He plays guitar and shouts in the bands TRAVEL and THE LOUDEST SOUNDER.
Amanda Smeltz is the author of Imperial Bender (Typecast Publishing), her debut poetry collection, which was mentioned by the Chicago Tribune and The Poetry Foundation as one of the notable poetry titles of 2013. She is the assistant poetry editor of Forklift, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Prelude, [PANK], The Best American Poetry blog, Barrow Street, and others. She lives and works in NYC.
Jamel Brinkley was raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York. He is a Kimbilio Fellow and is an alum of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. He recently graduated as a Dean’s Fellow from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Fiction at the University of Iowa, and is the current Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in A Public Space, and his debut collection, A Lucky Man and Other Stories, is forthcoming in Spring 2018 from Graywolf Press.
Natalie Eilbert is the author of three poetry collections, Overland (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming 2023), Indictus (Noemi Press 2018), Swan Feast (Bloof Books 2015). A recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts in poetry, a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and winner of the George Bogin Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America, Eilbert lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she is a statewide mental health reporter for USA Today Network-Wisconsin.
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