Join us at Hotel Congress for a talk by poet Shelly Taylor about Hick Poetics, the new anthology she co-edited along with Abraham Smith.  This event will take place at the Copper Room in Hotel Congress on August 12th at 5:30pm.  Hosted by the Poetry Center's Walt Whitman Circle. Refreshments will be provided.  About the book:

"This anthology offers up forty poets, from the globally famed to the emerging, each of whom have been or are now fast-tied to the countryside.  Let us sing to you of this age-old tradition so well we know the woodline.

This book will feature not only poems but also aesthetic statements speaking towards our writers’ relationships with the liminal, the rural, the great American wilds.

Meet our hicks:  Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Greg Alan Brownderville, Ashley Capps, Lisa D. Chavez, Allison Hedge Coke, Gillian Conoley, Michael Earl Craig, Tim Earley, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, Gabriel Gudding, Jim Harrison, Nathan Hauke, Carolyn Hembree, Matthew Henriksen, Juan Felipe Herrera, Bob Hicok, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Adrian Kien, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ada Limon, Maurice Manning, Kristi Maxwell, Aaron McCollough, Ander Monson, Collier Nogues, Linnea Ogden, Danielle Pafunda, D.A. Powell, Michael Sikkema, giovanni singleton, Juliana Sphar, TC Tolbert, Jen Tynes, Mara Vahratian, Connie Voisine, G.C. Waldrep, Dara Wier, Crystal Wilkinson, and Mark Wunderlich."

About Hick Poetics, the anthology: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780918786616/hick-poetics.aspx

Statement from Shelly Taylor and Abraham Smith about Hick Poetics: http://www.thevolta.org/ewc38-asmith-staylor-p1.html