Poetry Fix features Jane Creighton & Ronnie Yates on Tuesday, November 15, starting at 6:30 pm. An open reading & discussion will follow.
Jane Creighton is a poet, writer, & Professor of English at the University of Houston—Downtown. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, The American Voice, & Gulf Coast, as well as in The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (Edinburgh UP), Encountering Disgrace (Camden House), We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Books), Still Seeking and Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan (Lexington Books), Unwinding the Vietnam War (Real Comet Press) & Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire (Grove Press), & she has an early collection of poems, Ceres in an Open Field (Out & Out Books).
Ronnie Yates, a poet, musician/improviser/composer & interdisciplinary artist, appeared in the Colorado Review, POOL & Ploughshares, & on Bomblog, the Prague Review & Verse Daily. His manuscript Inconsolable Garden was a finalist for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Yates has co-authored with Charisse Pearlina Weston Fantasy Objects, a book of art and poetry, published through the Book Machine Project & the Fresh Arts CSA program. Yates has been awarded residencies at the Atlanta Center for the Arts & the Jentel Artist Residency Program. Yates plays guitar & performs poetry in various ensembles around Houston including the experimental sound project New Factories (with Gabriel Martinez). Yates teaches with Nameless Sound, a creative music arts organization, in the University of Houston art program, & is the poet-in-residence at Alabama Song, a collective art space. A textual & visual collaboration with the visual artist Gabriel Martinez is on view at the University of Houston Art Library.
Come early as parking is limited & the coffee is good.
