Book Launch - Two Able Muse Press Authors Read from Their New Collections - Free Admission for All
Launch Reading with Two Able Muse Book Award Winning Poets
Book Launch - Two Able Muse Book Award Winning Poets Read from Their New Collections - Free Admission for All
Able Muse Authors Book-Award Launch Reading
Date: Sunday, July 2, 3 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. EDT
Host: Stephen Kampa
Join us for a virtual reading and Q&A with two Able Muse Press authors Amy Glynn and Kelly Rowe reading from their new Able Muse Book Award winning collections--
Plus, kickoff reading by Stephen Kampa and the other Able Muse poetry editors: Maryann Corbett, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Jean L. Kreiling, Sally Thomas, and Daniel Galef.
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About the Readers:
- Amy Glynn: Winner, 2022 Able Muse Book Award with Romance Language (Able Muse Press, 2024
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- Kelly Rowe: : Winner, 2021 Able Muse Book Award with Rise above the River (Able Muse Press, 2023).
Amy Glynn is a poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. She is the author of A Modern Herbal (Measure Press, 2013). She has received the Troubadour Prize, The SPUR Award of the Academy of Western Writers, Poetry Northwest’s Carolyn Kizer Award, and two James Merrill House fellowships, among other honors. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kelly Rowe’s chapbook Flying South on the Back of a Dove was published by the Texas Review Press in January 2019. Her second chapbook, Child Bed Fever, was selected for the 2021 Rane Arroyo Series, and published by Seven Kitchens Press in November 2022. She has recently published poems in journals including North American Review, New Ohio Review, 32 Poems, Massachusetts Review, Salamander, and New Letters. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and works as a volunteer attorney, representing undocumented women.
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About the Host:
- Stephen Kampa: World Too Loud to Hear(Able Muse Press, 2023).
Stephen Kampa is the author of four collections of poetry: Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, Articulate as Rain, and World Too Loud to Hear. He is a winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Collins Prize, and the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry. He has been a resident at Art342 and at the Amy Clampitt House. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry. He has also worked as a musician and appears on multiple albums from WildRoots Records.~ ~ ~