June 5, 2024, 7:00 pm CDT
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Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. His numerous books include Frequently Asked Questions (forthcoming), Muse, Um (2022), Activities of Daily Living (2017), Brief Nudity (2013), Basic Cable Couplets (2012), Abbrev (2011), About the Author (2011), and I Am Spam (2004). He is also an acclaimed songwriter whose most recent release is Good Grief (2015).
T.R. Hummer has published 18 books of poetry and essays, including Walt Whitman in Hell, After the Afterlife, Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis, and the forthcoming Zeitgeist Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1976-2024. Former editor-in-chief of The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and The Georgia Review, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant for poetry, The Richard Wright Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. Retired from decades of teaching, he lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife, the novelist Elizabeth Cody Kimmel.
Karen Rigby is the author of Fabulosa (JackLeg Press, 2024) and Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012). A National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, her poems have been published in Poetry Northwest, Bennington Review, The London Magazine, and other journals. She lives and writes in Arizona.