Saturday, March 31st, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery:
Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO)
John GALLAHER is the author or co-author of five poetry collections, most recently, In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014). His poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines including Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Field, The Literati Quarterly, jubilat, The Journal, Ploughshares, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2008. He is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review.
Bridget LOWE is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013) and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Kansas City, where she was born.
Marcus MYERS advises gifted & talented high school students, teaches composition to high school seniors and college freshmen, and works as one of the founding co-editors of Bear Review. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Hunger Mountain, Mid-American Review, The National Poetry Review, Pleiades, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, Tar River Poetry, TYPO and elsewhere.
Mike KLEINE is the author of Lonely Men Club and other texts. He grew up in West Africa and graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in French Literature. He currently lives in the Midwest. 
Hilary PLUM is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction; and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). She teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program and serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center, where she organizes the Lighthouse Reading Series. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Full Stop, Consequence, Poetry Northwest, the Mississippi Review, the Seneca Review, Big Big Wednesday, and elsewhere.
Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published in 2017 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Poetry, Sewanee-Claudia Emerson scholar, and winner of the 2014 Loraine Williams Prize from The Georgia Review, her work can be seen in journals such Kenyon Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner and more. An educator at all levels for nearly twenty years, she is currently a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Toledo and co-curates the Bad Mouth Reading Series in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
James D'AGOSTINO is the author of Nude With Anything, and the chapbooks, Slur Oeuvre and Weathermanic. His poems have appeared in Conduit, Forklift Ohio, Third Coast, and TriQuaterly. He teaches at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. 
José FAUS is a Kansas City based writer and visual artist. His writing appears in a variety of anthologies and journals including Primera Página: Poetry From the Latino Heartland, Scapegoat Press, Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland, Scapegoat Press, Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, Poets & Writers, Luces y Sombras Journal, Raritan. His chapbook This Town Like That was published by Spartan Press and his second book of poetry The Life and Times of Jose Calderon was published by 39 Street Press in 2017.
