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An Evening with the Poets

October 18, 7pm
Location: Taylor Books Annex Gallery, 226 Capitol St.

Marc Harshman presents a night of poetry at Taylor Books with Steve Scafidi, youth poets from Poetry Out Loud, and more.

This event is free and open to the public.

 

About Steve Scafidi 

Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), For Love of Common Words (LSU 2006), The Cabinetmaker’s Window (LSU 2014), To the Bramble and the Briar (University of Arkansas Press, 2014) and a chapbook Songs for the Carry-On (Q Avenue Press, 2013). He has won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the James Boatwright Prize and the Miller Williams Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has taught at several universities including, most recently, in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.