Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

The Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is as late in the month as it can get, so be sure to mark your calendar for August 14 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill.

This month’s featured readers are DW Schmidt and Kathleen Winter, and of course, our featured readers will be followed by an open mic, so bring a poem or two to share.

D.W. Schmidt has written much more prose than poetry.  When he started writing poetry, he felt the poems happened accidentally, like they found him, which was probably the influence of the great imagist poets he has taught in his college classes for so long.  Lately, he has allowed his poems to be more topical, personal, phrase-driven, and ultimately more intentional.

Kathleen Winter is the author of I will not kick my friends (2018), which won the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Agni, New Statesman, New Republic and Yale Review. She was granted fellowships by Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dobie Paisano Ranch, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House and Cill Rialaig Retreat.