February 2, 2013, Saturday - Poetry Reading: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robins, and Kristin Naca at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Poetry Reading: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robins, and Kristin Naca

Join us for a unique evening of exceptionally enthralling poetry with Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robbins, and Kristin Naca.

Hadara Bar-Nadav will read from her recently published ekphrastic collection The Frame Called Ruin reviewed as “terse and fiery,” by Publishers Weekly.  Bar-Nadav is the author of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), which was awarded the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook, Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/ GreenTower Press, 2010), was awarded the Midwest Poets Series Award. She is also co-author, with Michelle Boisseau, of Writing Poems, 8th edition (Pearson, 2011). Her awards include fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and lives in Kansas City with her husband, Scott George Beattie, a furniture maker and visual artist.

Adam Clay will read selections from his collection A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) reviewed by Publishers Weekly as “a poet that locates himself at the borders between nature and language.” Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.

Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011), and two chapbooks: Circus (Flying Guillotine, 2009), and Little Felons (Strange Machine, 2013). Born in Portland, Oregon, he teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
 
Kristin Naca is a Filipina American poet who grew up in northern Virginia, graduated from University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh with an MFA, and from University of Nebraska in 2008, with a PhD Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Harper Palate, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Octopus Magazine, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review. She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002. She teaches at Macalester College. She lives in Minneapolis.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.