Donelle Dreese, Karen George, Nancy K. Jentsch, & Taunja Thomson (DELIGHT IS A FIELD)

Schedule

Tue Mar 03 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1660 Blue Rock St, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45223 | Cincinnati, OH

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Donelle Dreese, Karen George, Nancy Jentsch, & Taunja Thomson will read from their collaborative collection, DELIGHT IS A FIELD (from Shanti Arts). As always, we'll have an open mic!
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DONELLE DREESE is a Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. She is the author of several poetry collections including Organelle (2021) and Sophrosyne (2014). She serves as President of the Board of Directors for Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary and writes public scholarship on natural burial and death positive topics for Psychology Today.
KAREN GEORGE is author of the poetry collections Swim Your Way Back, A Map and One Year, Where Wind Tastes Like Pears, Caught in the Trembling Net, and the most recent collaborative book, Delight is a Field. Her award-winning collection of short stories is How We Fracture.
NANCY JENTSCH's poetry has appeared recently in Amethyst Review, Braided Way, and Still: The Journal. She has published two chapbooks and her collection Between the Rows debuted in 2022 (Shanti Arts). Her second collaborative book, Delight is a Field, was released in 2025 by Shanti Arts.
TAUNJA THOMSON is co-author of Frame & Mount the Sky (2017), as well as the author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019). Her first full-length collection of poems, Plunge, was published by Uncollected Press in 2023, ; she is co-author of Delight Is a Field (2025), published by Shanti Arts.
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