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InKY Open mic at 7 - Music at 7:30 - Featured readers at 8

Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collections Domestic Fugues and Borrowed Towns, as well as several chapbooks, including Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets! and 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times. His poems, stories, and essays... have appeared in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," Best American Poetry 2006, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, StoryQuarterly, Tar River Poetry, The Sun, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He earned his MFA at Spalding University, he lives in St. Louis where he teaches at Washington University and St. Louis Community College and serves as editor of River Styx.

Click for a larger version of this photo.Derek Mong is the 2008 – 2010 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville. From 2006 – 2007 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Choice Prize, two Pushcart nominations, Alehouse’s Happy Hour Poetry Award, and two Hopwoods. His poems, translations, and prose have appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Kenyon Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Courtgreen, and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C & R Press, 2009). In 2011 Saturnalia Books will publish his debut collection.

Joel Henderson is a singer/songwriter based in Louisville. Heartfelt lyrics and wit are at the core of many songwriters' work, but the ability to translate feelings to others is where Joel Henderson sets himself apart. With true-to-self lyrics and timeless melodies, Joel's sound is a refreshing blend of old standards and modern sensibilities, mixing folk, country, jazz and early American pop influences.