Joel Craig
Melody Gee
Marc McKee

This Friday, October 12 at 7 PM
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street

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Joel Craig is the author of The White House (The Green Lantern Press, 2012) and the chapbook Shine Tomorrow (Lost Horse, 2009). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence,Iowa Review and Typo, among others. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where he also curates the Danny’s Reading Series and is the poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine.

Melody S. Gee is originally from Cerritos, CA, and now lives in St. Louis with her husband and 19-month-old daughter. She teaches writing at St. Louis Community College, and has previously taught at Saint Louis University, UMSL, and Southwestern Illinois College. Her first book, Each Crumbling House, won the Perugia Press book prize and was published in 2010. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Town Creek Poetry, and The Collagist, among others. Poems from her new manuscript can be found at failbetter.com and Connotation Press.

Marc McKee received his MFA from the University of Houston and his PhD from the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he lives with his wife, Camellia Cosgray. His work has appeared in various journals, such as Barn Owl Review, Boston Review, Cimarron Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, diagram, Forklift, Ohio, lit, and Pleiades. He is the author of a chapbook, What Apocalypse?, which won the New Michigan Press/diagram 2008 Chapbook Contest, and two full-length collections: Fuse (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), andBewilderness (forthcoming, Black Lawrence Press, 2014).

All readings are sponsored by All Along Press.

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And please join us again for our third reading of this season’s series on Saturday, November 10 at 7 PM, with poets Joy Katz & Simone Mueunch

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fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO
www.fortgondo.com

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