Oscar Presents: Glomski, Gropp, Harrison & Solomon

Join us for an evening of incredible poetry on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 7pm. Four remarkable poets will read and discuss their work, which has been published by literary presses around the nation. Readers include Roberto Harrison - the Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Chris Glomski - a Chicago-based poet and translator, and Jenny Gropp and Laura Solomon - the new directors of nationally-renowned Woodland Pattern Book Center. These readers come together through the Oscar Presents reading series. Oscar Presents celebrates magical, experimental, and curious poetry while fostering friendship in the Midwest and beyond.

Books will be available for purchase, along with limited edition ephemera printed specifically for the event by Oxeye Press.

$3–5 suggested donation but everyone welcome.

Chris Glomski

Chris Glomski’s most recent poetry collection, Lit Up, was published by The Cultural Society in November 2017. John Tipton has described this new work as “beautiful and irrepressible. Like the best rock, it has a self-aware, slightly embarrassed reaching after the sublime. Experienced but not jaded. It is full of identifiable shared experience—of the uncanny and unsettling peculiarities of the world we inhabit.” Glomski is also the author of The Nineteenth Century (The Cultural Society 2011) and Transparencies Lifted from Noon (Spuyten Duyvil 2005). His poems, translations from the Italian, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Literary Review, Jacket, A Public Space, Chicago Review, Precipitate and elsewhere. He lives in Oak Park, IL.

Jenny Gropp

Jenny Gropp's first collection of poetry and prose, The Hominine Egg, was released last year from Kore Press. Her writing appears in or is forthcoming from Fence, Denver Quarterly, Best New Poets, Seattle Review, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, Typo, and DIAGRAM, among others. Formerly, she has served as managing editor of the Georgia Review and as editor of Black Warrior Review, and she now directs Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee with her partner, the poet Laura Solomon.

Roberto Harrison

Roberto Harrison, who is also a visual artist, served as 2017-2019 Milwaukee Poet Laureate. He has published six books of poetry, including Bridge of the World (2017) and Yaviza (2017) and served as a co-editor for the Resist Much/Obey Little anthology.

Laura Solomon

Laura Solomon is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Hermit from Ugly Duckling Press, and two works of translation. Over the years, she’s worked with a number of literary journals and small presses, including Verse and Verse Press (now Wave Books), the early online journal castagraf (which she ran from 2002–2005), and the Georgia Review. She and her partner Jenny Gropp were recently named the new executive directors of Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. New work is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Rail.

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