On the third Thursday of the month, Wine+Words monthly poetry night happens at Mari’s Wine Bar. The open mic begins at 7:30PM, with sign-ups before. A prominent poet is featured as a guest reader at 8:00PM. Lorine Parks curates the evening.
Thursday October 18, 7:30PM @ Mari’s Wine Bar
Kendall Evans won the 2010 Rhysling Award, long poem category, for “In the Astronaut Asylum Shadows,” in collaboration with Samantha Henderson, and in 2006 for “The Tin Man,” first published in Mythic Delerium. He has published over 100 poems in science fiction and horror magazines such as Amazing Stories. Fantastic Weird Tales, ASIMOV’S Science Fiction, Dreams and Nightmares. He has written “Night Ship to Never,” and “Red-Shifted in the Eyes of a Dragon.” Evans is at work on a ring cycle of four chapbook-length dramatic poems: The Mermaidens of Ceres, Battle Dance of the Valkyrie, Sieglinda’s Journey to the Stars, and The Rings of Ganymede.