Reading – Jolley / Kimball / Eldridge / Payne / Spacek

Join Chase Public & Monster House Press for a reading in advance of the Cincinnati Art Book Fair 2017.

Kendall Jolley (Cincinnati)
Kamal Kimball (Cincinnati)
Morgan Eldridge (Bloomington, IN)
James Payne (Columbus, OH)
Wendy Lee Spacek (Bloomington, IN)

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Kendall Jolley

Kamal E. Kimball is a Cincinnati poet whose work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Hobart, Sundog Lit, Bone Parade, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Califragile, and elsewhere. She is a member of both Cincinnati DIY Writers and the Ohio Poetry Association, volunteers as a reader for E&GJ Press, and hosts the Inkwell Reading Series & Open Mic every second Monday at Urban Artifact. She works as a freelance writer and at an auction house. More at kamalkimball.com

Morgan Eldridge lives in Bloomington IN and exists through creative means, melding forms of performance, painting, and writing. Monster House Press published a collection of her poems, prose, and short stories, Omen Amen.

James Payne is an art critic, curator, and poet. Monster House Press published his collection Things Just Aren’t They in 2015. Payne was a contributor to the catalogue for Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions (Indiana University Press, 2017). Payne teaches Art Theory and Criticism at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.

Wendy Lee Spacek​ ​has​ ​published​ ​one​ ​book​ ​of​ ​poetry, PSYCHOGYNECOLOGY​ ​(Monster​ ​House​ ​Press,​ ​2015).​ ​She​ ​is in​ ​the​ ​MFA​ ​program​ ​at​ ​Indiana​ ​University​ ​in​ ​Bloomington,​ ​IN.