Join us for a reading with Micah Bateman, Ash Smith, Daniel Eduardo Ruiz and Matthew Klane.

Micah Bateman is the author of a chapbook of poems, Polis, from the Catenary Press; the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award; and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Austin, where he’s at work on a Ph.D. dissertation, “#WebPoetsSociety: Poetry in the Digital Public Sphere.”

Ashley Smith Keyfitz (Ash Smith) is the author of Water Shed, Come Such Frequency, Pigeon of Tears and (forthcoming from Xexoxial Editions) Park of Unwired Asking. Formerly a publisher for LRL magazine and book series, she lives in Austin where she does web design, graphic, and community outreach work.

Daniel Eduardo Ruiz was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico and studies poetry at the Michener Center for Writers. A former Fulbright Scholar, his poems can be found in New Ohio Review, Juked, The Journal, and elsewhere.

Matthew Klane is co-editor at Flim Forum Press. His books include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flim Forum, 2016), Che (Stockport Flats, 2013), and B (Stockport Flats, 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press and an e-book My is online at Fence Digital. Recent work is online or forthcoming at Barzakh, Homonym, Pulpmouth, and The Spectacle. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY, where he curates the The REV Poetry Series and teaches at Russell Sage College.