Join us for an evening of excellent poetry with Marcia LeBeau, Amy Small-McKinney, and John Amen.
Marcia LeBeau is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, A CURIOUS HUNGER, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books in May 2024. Her poems, essays and reviews appear in O, The Oprah Magazine, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Painted Bride Quarterly, Moon City Review, and elsewhere. She was a third-place co-winner of the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Award, was longlisted for the 2022 Ralph Angel Prize, and received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her work has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has an MFA in poetry from VCFA and is the founder of The Write Space, a co-working and event space for creative writers in The Valley Arts District of Orange, New Jersey. She lives with her husband and two sons in South Orange, New Jersey.
John Amen is the author of five collections of poetry, including Illusion of an Overwhelm (New York Quarterly Books), finalist for the 2018 Brockman-Campbell Award, and work from which was chosen as a finalist for the 2018 Dana Award. He was the recipient of the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and his poems have been translated into Spanish, French, Hungarian, Korean, and Hebrew. He founded and is managing editor of Pedestal Magazine. His music, literary, and film reviews appear regularly in various publications. His new collection, Dark Souvenirs, will be released by New York Quarterly Books in April 2024.
Amy Small-McKinney’s second full-length book of poems, Walking Toward Cranes won The Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2016). Her most recent chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, was written during Covid and her husband’s illness and death (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). Her newest full-length, & You Think It Ends, is due in early 2025. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, for example, American Poetry Review and Banyan Review and are forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review. Her poems have also appeared in several anthologies and have been translated into Korean and Romanian. She is a poet laureate emeritus of Montgomery County PA and currently resides in Philadelphia.