Poetry Reading, June 30th at 7:30pm. featuring Darren Demaree, Sara Moore Wagner, and Travis Chi Wing Lau.
Prologue Bookshop is proud to present Darren C. Demaree for a poetry reading of his newest release, "neverwell". Demaree will be joined by Sara Moore Wagner and Travis Chi Wing Lau at this event, where they will also be reading their own poetry. Wagner will read from her book "Swan Wife", whil Lau will read from his work "Paring".
This event will take place at Prologue Bookshop on June 30th at 7:30pm. RSVP using the Eventbrite link above.
Darren C. Demaree grew up in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Miami University, and Kent State University. He is the author of seventeen poetry collections, most recently “the luxury”, (January 2023, Glass Lyre Press). He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system, and living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot (winner of the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize, forthcoming from Lynx House press in 2024), Swan Wife (winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize) and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript prize winner), a recipient of a 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award.
Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. He received his B.A. in English with a minor in Classical Civilization from the University of California, Los Angeles (2012). He received both his M.A. (2013) and Ph.D. (2018) in English at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is primarily focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture with research and teaching interests in literature and science, the history of medicine, and Disability Studies.