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NIGHTJAR: Derek Mong

May 21 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Derek Mong will begin reading at 7pm.

After Lynch’s reading and a brief break, the open mic will begin.

Open mic prompt: Write a poem about a beautiful catastrophe.

About Derek Mong:

Derek Mong is the author of When the Earth Flies into the Sun (October 2024), The Identity Thief (2018) and Other Romes (2011)—all from Saturnalia Books. A chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist (2017), was a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Contest. His collaborative translation, The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelincompleted with his wife, Anne O. Fisherreceived the 2018 Cliff Becker Translation Prize.

A poet, essayist, and translator, Derek’s work appears widely: the Kenyon ReviewBlackbird, At Length, Pleiades, Verse Daily, the Missouri Review, Two Lines, Poetry Northwestand in the anthology, Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017). He has blogged for Kenyon Review Online, where he wrote a series of Leaves of Grass beer reviews, and written essay-reviews for Gettysburg Review. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Zócalo Public Square and, along with his wife, edits At Length, a literary journal devoted to long work.

New poems and essays have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the LA Times, Zócalo Public Square, Free Inquiry, Always Crashing, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and the Boston Globe. His latest long poem, “Midnight Arrhythmia,” was published in Action, Spectacle.

An Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), Derek holds degrees from Stanford University (M.A. Ph.D.), the University of Michigan (M.F.A.), and Denison University (B.A.). Born in Portland, Oregon and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio, he currently lives in West Lafayette, Indiana with his wife and son.

@derek_mong

NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Details

Date:
May 21
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Tube Factory artspace
1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Phone
3174506630
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