Trending
NELSONVILLE -- The February session of the Spoken & Heard series hosted by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Poet Laureate of Ohio, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday at Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville.
Spoken & Heard is a seasonal series of literary events featuring award-winning authors, poets and singer/songwriters from across the country.
February's event will feature poet Allison Joseph and author Wesley Browne. To register go to stuartsoperahouse.org.
Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, Ill., where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University.
Her poetry collection, "Confessions of a Barefaced Woman" (Red Hen Press) was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry and won the Feathered Quill Book Award.
Her newest books include "Lexicon" (Red Hen Press), "The Last Human Heart" (Diode Editions), "Smart Pretender" (Finishing Line Press) and "Corporal Muse" (Sibling Rivalry Press). Her chapbooks "Any Proper Weave" (Kelsay Books) and "Professional Happiness" (Backbone Press) will appear in 2021.
She is the widow of Jon Tribble, poet, editor and writer.
Browne is the founder and host of the Pages & Pints Reading Series at Apollo Pizza in Richmond, Ky. He lives with his wife and two sons in Madison County where he practices law, co-owns and helps manage local restaurants and a music venue and coaches sports.
The seminar will be featured on the Stuart's Opera House Facebook page. Anyone can watch the event live, but to actively participate in the discussions, register for the Zoom seminar at www.stuartsoperahouse.org.
For more information about Stuart's Opera House and the February session of Spoken & Heard, go to stuartsoperahouse.org or call 740-753-1924.