Featuring Linda Lerner and Anton Yakolev

Hosted by George Wallace

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Linda Lerner is the author of 17 collections (chapbooks & full-length) including Takes Guts and Years Sometimes and Yes, the Ducks Were Real from NYQ Books (2011& 2015) and A Dance Around the Cauldron, a prose work consisting of nine characters during the Salem witch trials brought into our own times (Lummox Press, September, 2017) which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Recent acceptances include the following journals: Maintenant, Café Review, Trailer Park Quarterly, Wilderness Literary House Review, Gargoyle, Home Planet News, Cape Rock, Illumination Magazine, Piker Press, Patterson Literary Review, and Chiron Review.

Anton Yakovlev will read from The Last Poet of the Village, a book of translations of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, published in 2019 by Sensitive Skin Books. Yakovlev's latest poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (great weather for MEDIA), The Hopkins Review, Narrative Northeast, Posit, and elsewhere.