NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring JL Kato

Name: NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring JL Kato
Start: 2025-09-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-17T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203

Schedule

Wed Sep 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203 | Indianapolis, IN

Doors at 6:30 pm, JL Kato's reading starts at 7 pm. The reading will be followed by an open mic of poems in response to the following prompt: Write a response to the phrase, "Poetry alters reality." You must use the Oxford comma.
JL Kato is the author of Shadows Set in Concrete, selected by Indiana Center for the Book as the best Indiana poetry book of 2011. He was designated Indiana Literary Champion by the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards in 2022. His poetry has appeared in several journals and publications, including Paterson Literary Review, Indianapolis Review, Flying Island, Tipton Poetry Journal, and So It Goes (the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library).
NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.