The Word Works, The Writer’s Center, and Poet Lore present Café Muse, featuring poets Tara Campbell and Meg Kearney. The chatroom opens at 7pm and features Classical guitar, played by Michael C. Davis, set to a slideshow of photography by Henry Crawford. Registration is free but required to get the Zoom link for the event. To do so go to https://sites.google.com/
TARA CAMPBELL is an award-winning writer, a teacher, and the fiction editor at Barrelhouse. Her books include Cabinet of Wrath: a Doll Collection (Aqueduct Press 2021), the novel TreeVolution (2019), the short story collection Midnight at the Organporium (Aqueduct Press, 2019), and the hybrid fiction/poetry collection Circe’s Bicycle (LitFest Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in Booth, Better than Starbucks Sonnet Contest (winner), Rigorous, Quail Bell Magazine, Poets Reading the News, Bending Genres, Writers Resist, District Lit, and elsewhere. She is a Kimbilio Fellow, and she received her MFA from American University. She lives in Washington D.C. taracampbell.com
MEG KEARNEY is the author of All Morning the Crows (The Word Works, 2021), winner of the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry. Other books include Home By Now (Four Way Books, 2009), winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award, An Unkindness of Ravens (BOA Editions Ltd, 2001), the heroic crown The Ice Storm (Green Linen Press Chapbook Series 2020), verse novels for teens, and Trouper (Scholastic, 2013), illustrated by E.B. Lewis . Meg’s poetry has been featured, among others, on Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series, and included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology. She lives in New Hampshire and directs the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program in Massachusetts. megkearney.com