Poetry at the Pub: Tony Brewer and Kyle Laws & Open Mic

Name: Poetry at the Pub: Tony Brewer and Kyle Laws & Open Mic
Start: 2025-05-27T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 600 N Rolla St., Rolla, MO

Schedule

Tue, 27 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

600 N Rolla St., Rolla, MO | Rolla, MO

Join us for an evening of poetry. Our featured readers are Tony Brewer and Kyle Laws. Bring your own work to share at open mic.
Tony Brewer is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He is executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival and co-producer of the Writers Guild Spoken Word Series and the Urban Deer experimental music series. He has published 10 books including Fragile Batteries (The Grind Stone, 2023), Pity for Sale (Gasconade Press, 2022), Homunculus (Dos Madres Press, 2019), and Hot Type Cold Read (Chatter House Press, 2013). Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand at coffeehouses, museums, cemeteries, churches, bars, and art and music festivals for over a decade, and he is a frequent collaborator with experimental music & field recording ensemble ORTET. More at https://linktr.ee/TonyBrewer
Kyle Laws is based out of Steel City Art Works in Pueblo, CO where she directs the Pueblo Poetry Project. Her more than twenty-five collections include Beginning at the Stone Corner (River Dog, 2022), The Sea Is Woman (Moonstone Press, 2021), Uncorseted (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2020), Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019), Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing, 2018), and Wildwood (Lummox Press, 2014). With nine nominations for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Recipient of the 2020 award for The Sea Is Woman from Moonstone Press and the 2012 award from Poetry West for George Sand’s Haiti, she is the editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.